The Collaborative International Dictionary
government-in-exile
government-in-exile \government-in-exile\ n. A temporary government moved to or formed in a foreign land by exiles who hope to rule when their country is liberated.
WordNet
government-in-exile
n. a temporary government moved to or formed in a foreign land by exiles who hope to rule when their country is liberated
Usage examples of "government-in-exile".
Venusian Habitat, discussed horse breeding with a minor consular official from the Texan Dependency, was gracious to the charge d'affaires for the Titanian government-in-exile, and chatted about nothing in particular with an English-speaking sheik from the little desert kingdom of Iowa, whose ancestors had been wheat farmers before the greenhouse effect had shifted the American breadbasket northeast to the Islamic Commonwealth of Quebec.