autocracy
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8.2
- noun
- /ɔːˈtɒkrəsi/
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autocracia
- In an autocracy, a single leader controls the government without any checks or balances on their power.
- autocracy and democracy
- poor autocracies
- autocracy and oligarchy
These people want autocracy, theocracy, a fascist government.
- These people want autocracy, theocracy, a fascist government.
- And you see the United States of America voting with other autocracies in the UN resolutions.
- That is fascism, that is tyranny, that is autocracy.
- He has a form of substitution from autocracy to democracy.
- It's just like, it's so fucking crazy, like the autocracy embodied in Tsar Alexander.
- The royal domains were not fiscal states, they were autocracy, royal autocracies.
- They're saying great for the Hamas dictatorship, wonderful for the Palestinian autocracy, great, great, great.
- So this the trades off the trade off that you have for democracy versus like autocracy.
- By contrast, autocracies say the seeds of their own demise by suppressing their citizens.
- But first, we have to, you know, we have to do this sort of like, really intense autocracy, right?
Examples
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Critics of the democratic peace have argued that historically, democracies had been rare and autocracies common.
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Indonesia suggests reasons why these triple-threat autocracies survive for so long.
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Growing autocracy inside Russia obviously did not cause the rise in oil and gas prices.
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However, words such as democracy or autocracy do not appear anywhere in the models.
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Ideological competition between democracy and autocracy was supposed to end with the "end of history."
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While liberal autocracies may have existed in the past, can one imagine them today?
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Trotsky asked that they be put on trial so that the corruption and abuses of the autocracy could be revealed.
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And for many societies emerging from autocracy, coalition building is a first-time experience in collective action.
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Perhaps the most telling evidence that Putin's autocracy has hurt rather than helped Russia's economy is provided by regional comparisons.
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In the early twentieth century, autocracies in both countries were toppled almost simultaneously by violent revolution.
Academic text (2001)
Synonyms
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6.1
A government that rules a country, often not democratic and strict
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4.8
A government where one person or a small group has all power and does not allow political opposition
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6.7
One person or a small group rules a country cruelly
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9.3
A government that controls nearly all parts of people's lives and takes away personal freedom
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8.7
A system where one person or small group has almost all political power
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9.6
A government where one person or group has all power and rules cruelly
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8.3
A government that controls almost all parts of people's lives by force
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7.4
A government where one leader or a small group holds power and limits people's freedoms
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8.2
A government that controls almost every part of people's lives and punishes people who disagree
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8.1
A system where one ruler has complete power
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7.6
A country ruled by leaders who tightly control people's lives and freedoms
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8.2
A government where one person has all power and others cannot oppose them
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9.9
A form of government where one leader has almost complete power without legal limits
A government where one person has all the power and decides everything
A government where one person has all power over the country and no limits
Antonyms
How Authoritarian
Surface Forms
Morphology
autocracy = auto + crat + cy
The word uses the classical elements 'auto-' and '-cracy', but the modern political meaning of absolute rule by one person is not directly predictable from those parts for an average learner.
Etymology
Autocracy comes from the parts auto- meaning 'self' and -cracy meaning 'rule' or 'power', the same ending as in democracy. So an autocracy is literally 'rule by oneself', which explains why it means a government where one person has all the power.