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dictatorship
[ dik-tey-ter-ship, dik-tey- ]
noun
- a country, government, or the form of government in which absolute power is exercised by a dictator.
- absolute, imperious, or overbearing power or control.
- the office or position held by a dictator.
dictatorship
/ dɪkˈteɪtəˌʃɪp /
noun
- the rank, office, or period of rule of a dictator
- government by a dictator or dictators
- a country ruled by a dictator or dictators
- absolute or supreme power or authority
dictatorship
- Government by a single person or by a junta or other group that is not responsible to the people or their elected representatives.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of dictatorship1
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A second document was titled: “Gambia Reborn: A Charter for Transition from Dictatorship to Democracy and Development.”
He is a true advocate for human rights who has paid a horrible price for standing up against the Assad dictatorship.
Demographic changes are making that community less dogmatic, even through the Castro regime remains an oppressive dictatorship.
It simultaneously reveals the absurdity of dictatorship and gives comfort to those languishing under an impossible reality.
They backed him when the Sandinistas tried to establish their own Cuban-inspired dictatorship.
Siyes desired a man who would overthrow the Directory and establish a dictatorship: Barras was coquetting with the Bourbons.
In this way he acquired a civil jurisdiction in connection with his military dictatorship.
If all the accounts of that dark dictatorship were true, they would have vanished from Terra, and not in their ships either.
On the 9th of February I proposed a military dictatorship, that alone was able to place on foot a hundred thousand armed men.
From him, Barrent learned that Earth was believed to be a dictatorship.
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