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US
/ˈdɪkteɪtɝ, dɪkˈteɪtɝ/
]
[ UK /dɪktˈeɪtɐ/ ]
[ UK /dɪktˈeɪtɐ/ ]
NOUN
- a speaker who dictates to a secretary or a recording machine
- a ruler who is unconstrained by law
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a person who behaves in a tyrannical manner
my boss is a dictator who makes everyone work overtime
How To Use dictator In A Sentence
- When the United States allowed the President to make himself a dictator, Cubans promulgated a new constitution that abnegated the hated Platt Amendment.
- Instead, we suffer a good deal more from elective dictatorship, with prime ministers and premiers able to shape the political agenda with a freer hand.
- This type of political perversion of the law was well known during Hitler's fascist dictatorship.
- Now the boy's being hauled before the courts for having been part of a plot to overthrow some tinpot dictator in Equatorial Mongolia or some such place.
- The ayatollah broke with Iran's clerical leadership and became a vehement critic, denouncing Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and calling the postelection crackdown the work of a dictatorship. Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
- Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. Harry S. Truman
- Like dictators and führers, politicians always come to the scene of a natural disaster carrying a wad of cash.
- In Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell, the "telescreen" compulsorily present in every house is not only a television broadcasting from the outside, but a sort of CCTV camera, observing the people in the room, shouting at them if they fail to meet the standards ordained by the state of which Big Brother is the dictator, always watching them. Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph
- Under Pragmatic(al) she read; meddlesome, positive, dictatorial (she snorted, irritably). BEHINDLINGS
- Just why the politician who destroyed his premiership crusading against dictators wilfully became a servant to them remains unanswered. Times, Sunday Times