agrodespotic
now rare
adjective
Of, relating to, or characterized by the rule of a despotic bureaucracy in control of the water supply over a society of small-scale agricultural producers.
- Associated originally and chiefly with East Asian societies dependent on large-scale, state-controlled hydraulic works..
Origin
1950s; earliest use found in Karl August Wittfogel (1896–1988).
- the fair (or fairer) sex
- the Falklands
- the Fall
- the Fall of Man
- the Faroes
- the Fates
- the Father
- the fat is in the fire
- The Federalist
- the Federal Union
- the female of the species
- the Fenland
- the Fens
- the Few
- the Fifteen
- the final straw
- the finer points of
- the finished article
- the firing line
- (the) first among equals
- (the) first cab off the rank
- the Flat
- the Fleet
- the Flemish
- the Flood