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MONOCRACY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does monocracy mean? 

MONOCRACY (noun)
  The noun MONOCRACY has 1 sense:

1. a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)play

  Familiarity information: MONOCRACY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


MONOCRACY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

absolutism; authoritarianism; Caesarism; despotism; dictatorship; monocracy; one-man rule; shogunate; Stalinism; totalitarianism; tyranny

Hypernyms ("monocracy" is a kind of...):

autarchy; autocracy (a political system governed by a single individual)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "monocracy"):

police state (a country that maintains repressive control over the people by means of police (especially secret police))


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