tyrannynoun [ U ]
uk/ˈtɪr.ən.i/us/ˈtɪr.ən.i/government by a ruler or small group of people who have unlimited power over the people in their country or state and use it unfairly and cruelly:
This, the president promised us, was a war against tyranny.
a situation in which someone or something controls how you are able to live, in an unfair way:
Women, the play seems to suggest, must resist the tyranny of domesticity.
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Systems of government
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