Usually means: Purging officials after regime change.
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  1. lustration: Merriam-Webster
  2. lustration: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. lustration: Collins English Dictionary
  4. lustration: Wordnik
  5. lustration: Wiktionary
  6. Lustration, lustration: Dictionary.com
  7. Lustration: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Lustration: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. lustration: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. lustration: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  11. Lustration: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. lustration: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. lustration: FreeDictionary.org
  14. lustration: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  15. Lustration: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. lustration: Legal dictionary

(Note: See lustrate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (lustration)

noun:  (religion) A rite of purification, especially washing.
noun:  (politics, law) The restoration of credibility to a government by the purging of perpetrators of crimes committed under an earlier regime.

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