POLICE STATE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A country that maintains repressive control over the people by means of police (especially secret police)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("police state" is a kind of...):

absolutism; authoritarianism; Caesarism; despotism; dictatorship; monocracy; one-man rule; shogunate; Stalinism; totalitarianism; tyranny (a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.))

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