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police state
noun
- a nation in which the police, especially a secret police, summarily suppresses any social, economic, or political act that conflicts with governmental policy.
police state
noun
- a state or country in which a repressive government maintains control through the police
police state
- A nation whose rulers maintain order and obedience by the threat of police or military force; one with a brutal, arbitrary government.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of police state1
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Example Sentences
A secular police state well practiced in suppressing internal challenges.
The police state system that propped up dictators from Algiers to Islamabad for decades was unsustainable.
A former Ebola patient calls the forcible isolation of returning health-care workers from West Africa a ‘police state approach.’
And I, for one, do not want to live in a country that is a "police state" for some, and not for others.
If there was violence, and then violence back, you have to blame the police state.
Having experienced what the police state meant, he would have been untrue to himself if he had yielded to it.
I don't think you can get absolute security without almost establishing a police state, and we don't want that.
You expect a responsible government to be in control after the removal of the police state.
During the time of readjustment after Joseph Stalin's death in 1953, Bulgaria's police state period gradually came to a close.
This was a book about—it is a projection into the future, supposed to take place in 1984 in England under a complete police state.
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