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noun, masculine

sorpasso

/soɾˈpaso/

noun, masculine/soɾˈpaso/plural: sorpassos

overtaking (situation where a political party manages to get more votes that a party that was previously more successful than it, especially if both parties are perceived to share parts of their ideology); overtaking (situation where a country or region surpasses another one in terms of GDP or GDP per capita)

Unadapted borrowing from Italian sorpasso.