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au⋅toc⋅ra⋅cy
[aw-tok-ruh-see]
–noun, plural -cies.
| 1. | government in which one person has uncontrolled or unlimited authority over others; the government or power of an absolute monarch. |
| 2. | a nation, state, or community ruled by an autocrat. |
| 3. | unlimited authority, power, or influence of one person in any group. |
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Autocracy
Au*toc"ra*cy\, n.; pl. Autocracies. [Gr. ?: cf. F. autocratie. See Autocrat.]1. Independent or self-derived power; absolute or controlling authority; supremacy. The divine will moves, not by the external impulse or inclination of objects, but determines itself by an absolute autocracy. --South. 2. Supreme, uncontrolled, unlimited authority, or right of governing in a single person, as of an autocrat. 3. Political independence or absolute sovereignty (of a state); autonomy. --Barlow. 4. (Med.) The action of the vital principle, or of the instinctive powers, toward the preservation of the individual; also, the vital principle. [In this sense, written also autocrasy.] --Dunglison.
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Language Translation for : autocracy
Spanish:
autocracia,
German:
die Autokratie,
Japanese:
独裁政治
autocracy [(aw-tok-ruh-see)]
A system of government in which supreme political power is held by one person. (Compare constitutional monarchy, democracy, and oligarchy.)
Note: Iraq under Saddam Hussein is an autocracy.
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