autocracy

[ aw-tok-ruh-see ]

/ ɔˈtɒk rə si /

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noun, plural au·toc·ra·cies.

government in which one person has uncontrolled or unlimited authority over others; the government or power of an absolute monarch.

a nation, state, or community ruled by an autocrat.

unlimited authority, power, or influence of one person in any group.

Origin of autocracy

1645–55; < Greek autokráteia power over oneself, sole power, equivalent to autokrat(ḗs) autocrat + -eia -ia; see -cracy

Words nearby autocracy

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Example sentences from the Web for autocracy

The nature of the autocracy—that it was only answerable to itself—meant it could not draw its power from the people.

Kotkin Biography Reveals Stalin's Evil Pragmatism |William O’Connor |November 30, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Ortega has dismissed the allegations of autocracy and fraud that have afflicted his presidency as politically motivated.

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Autocracy is just a Russian bad habit, like smoking three packs of cigarettes a day and drinking a liter of vodka.

Russian History Is on Our Side: Putin Will Surely Screw Himself |P. J. O’Rourke |May 11, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
It was a strange world, or seems so in retrospect, built as it was of equal parts meritocracy and autocracy.

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There are elements of autocracy, monarchy and military in the organizational structure and culture of Chassidic movements.

What Peter Beinart Gets Wrong About Chabad |David Werdiger |July 1, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
This is quite as true in a democracy as it is in an autocracy.

Introduction to the Science of Sociology |Robert E. Park
Under the banner of Social Democracy a tyranny has been established as infamous as anything in the annals of autocracy.

Bolshevism |John Spargo
And there was autocracy again, and again the vicious circle.

A Poor Wise Man |Mary Roberts Rinehart
While revengeful if imposed upon, and bitter under the autocracy of cruelty, he has a great respect for firmness.

The Great White Tribe in Filipinia |Paul T. Gilbert
The end of a great war, however, has one inevitable result, that it leaves a military 73 autocracy in supreme control of affairs.

Armageddon--And After |W. L. Courtney

British Dictionary definitions for autocracy

autocracy

/ (ɔːˈtɒkrəsɪ) /

noun plural -cies

government by an individual with unrestricted authority

the unrestricted authority of such an individual

a country, society, etc, ruled by an autocrat

Cultural definitions for autocracy

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.)

notes for autocracy

Iraq under Saddam Hussein is an autocracy.

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noun, plural au·toc·ra·cies.

Origin of autocracy

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autocracy

noun, plural au·toc·ra·cies.

Origin of autocracy

Words nearby autocracy

Words related to autocracy

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