dictatorshipnoun
uk/dɪkˈteɪ.tə.ʃɪp/us/dɪkˈteɪ.t̬ɚ.ʃɪp/[ C ] a country ruled by a dictator:
a military dictatorship
[ U ] the state of being, or being ruled by, a dictator:
The dictatorship of Franco lasted for nearly 40 years.
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Systems of government
- a reign of terror idiom
- absolutism
- ancien régime
- anti-federalist
- apartheid
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- democracy
- democrat
- democratic
- democratize
- interregnum
- Jim Crow
- junta
- kleptocracy
- majority rule
- plutocracy
- plutocrat
- police state
- regime
- reign
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