| 单词 | police state |
| 释义 | police state (once / 24471 pages) n A government that controls the activities of its citizens using a police force or military is a police state. Before World War II, there was a rise of police states in Europe. You could also call a police state a "dictatorship" or a "totalitarian government." The first use of police state can be traced back to Austria in the 1850s, when order was kept by a national police force. The definition varies depending on the values of the person using the term — some think if a government uses electronic or digital surveillance it's a police state, while others believe it takes the loss of more freedoms to make a police state. WORD FAMILYpolice state: police states USAGE EXAMPLESHe fled as Tunisia turned from a police state into a democracy in a chaotic 2011 uprising that spread across the Arab world. Seattle Times(Dec 22, 2016) Those kinds of reflections are never welcome in a police state, but less so during the mourning period for a man who ruled for decades. Wall Street Journal(Dec 04, 2016) It has always sounded to me like blistering commentary about a police state, or some kind of high-stakes cloak-and-dagger situation. The New Yorker(Nov 30, 2016) n a country that maintains repressive control over the people by means of police (especially secret police) Hyper Caesarism, Stalinism, absolutism, authoritarianism, despotism, dictatorship, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, totalitarianism, tyranny a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) |
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