| NOUN | group | police state | a country that maintains repressive control over the people by means of police (especially secret police) |
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| Meaning | A country that maintains repressive control over the people by means of police (especially secret police). | |
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| Broader | dictatorship, absolutism, authoritarianism, Caesarism, despotism, 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.) |
| Spanish | estado policial | |
| Catalan | estat policial | |
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