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AUTHORITARIAN STATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does authoritarian state mean?
• AUTHORITARIAN STATE (noun)
The noun AUTHORITARIAN STATE has 1 sense:
1. a government that concentrates political power in an authority not responsible to the people
Familiarity information: AUTHORITARIAN STATE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A government that concentrates political power in an authority not responsible to the people
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
authoritarian regime; authoritarian state
Hypernyms ("authoritarian state" is a kind of...):
authorities; government; regime (the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit)
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