HyperDic: police_state

English > 1 sense of the expression police state:
NOUNgrouppolice statea country that maintains repressive control over the people by means of police (especially secret police)
English > police state: 1 sense > noun 1, group
MeaningA country that maintains repressive control over the people by means of police (especially secret police).
Broaderdictatorship, absolutism, authoritarianism, Caesarism, despotism, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyrannyA form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
Spanishestado policial
Catalanestat policial

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