POLITICAL SYSTEM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does political system mean? 

• POLITICAL SYSTEM (noun)
  The noun POLITICAL SYSTEM has 1 sense:

1. the members of a social organization who are in power

  Familiarity information: POLITICAL SYSTEM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POLITICAL SYSTEM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The members of a social organization who are in power

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

form of government; political system

Hypernyms ("political system" is a kind of...):

social group (people sharing some social relation)

Meronyms (members of "political system"):

party; political party (an organization to gain political power)

political entity; political unit (a unit with political responsibilities)

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

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

constitutionalism (a constitutional system of government (usually with a written constitution))

commonwealth; democracy; republic (a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them)

diarchy; dyarchy (a form of government having two joint rulers)

gerontocracy (a political system governed by old men)

gynarchy; gynecocracy (a political system governed by a woman)

hegemony (the dominance or leadership of one social group or nation over others)

mobocracy; ochlocracy (a political system in which a mob is the source of control; government by the masses)

oligarchy (a political system governed by a few people)

plutocracy (a political system governed by the wealthy people)

republic (a form of government whose head of state is not a monarch)

technocracy (a form of government in which scientists and technical experts are in control)

theocracy (a political unit governed by a deity (or by officials thought to be divinely guided))

Holonyms ("political system" is a member of...):

social organisation; social organization; social structure; social system; structure (the people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships)