dictatorship
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4.8
- noun
- /dɪkˈteɪtərʃɪp/
- Real political life had been smothered by two decades of military dictatorship, which hid behind a counterfeit democracy.
- military dictatorship
- dictatorship and democracy
- communist dictatorship
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Watch on YouTubeThe actual war is between dictatorship and freedom.
- The actual war is between dictatorship and freedom.
- That was what a dictatorship is, is about.
- Protesting the dictatorship and it got very violent.
- It was mostly concerned with you'd, you'd write letters to dictatorships to free political prisoners.
- We decided that now that that goes way beyond dictatorship.
- I'm a private company with no board, and so this is a dictatorship, like, right?
- It takes a lot of degeneration before a country falls into a dictatorship, she said.
- She worries about the Israeli state itself sliding into something like a, a dictatorship very early on.
- The farmers in Romania there are under the dictatorship of the oligarch system.
- It was about claiming our country back from the grip of dictatorship.
- It ends up in a dictatorship of Cromwell and his followers.
- A sound stable economy and a dictatorship.
- The next two months see Yugoslavia come extremely close to royal dictatorship.
- Second meta problem is what I call Petro dictatorship.
Examples
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That said, those who pine for the familiar days of the dictatorship are wrong.
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I will not trade one dictatorship for another!
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The actual war is between dictatorship and freedom.
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We're living in a dictatorship.
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The result was to hand over the administration of justice into the hands of the dictatorship.
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We usually know what's going on in our own countries, even in a dictatorship like Iraq.
Fiction book (1994) -
When a dictatorship seriously violates human rights... and attacks the common good of the nation...
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History shows that the disappearance of a dictatorship does not necessarily generate a democracy.
Academic text (1990) -
In some countries, a dictatorship limits the freedoms of its citizens.
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During the dictatorship, opposing voices were often silenced.
Synonyms
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6.7
One person or a small group rules a country cruelly
17
9.3
A government that controls nearly all parts of people's lives and takes away personal freedom
16
8.1
A group of military officers who take control of a country by force
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8.7
A system where one person or small group has almost all political power
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8.3
A government that controls almost all parts of people's lives by force
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9.6
A government where one person or group has all power and rules cruelly
6
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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8.2
A government in which one person has all power
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7.6
A country ruled by leaders who tightly control people's lives and freedoms
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8.1
A system where one ruler has complete power
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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 power over the country and no limits
Antonyms
Compounds
- Offensive
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8.5
A small cruel government that controls people and seems foolish
How Authoritarian
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Dictatorship comes from dictator, which comes from an old Latin root dicere that means 'to say' or 'to speak', and it is like the English word dictate ('to order'). So a dictatorship is rule where one person 'says' the rules and gives all the orders.