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/dɪkˈteɪtɝˌʃɪp/
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[ UK /dɪktˈeɪtəʃˌɪp/ ]
[ UK /dɪktˈeɪtəʃˌɪp/ ]
NOUN
- a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
How To Use dictatorship In A Sentence
- 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.
- 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
- Admittedly, dictatorships do not encourage the cultivation of colourful eccentrics such as Montgomery or Patton.
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- By 1983, protests against the dictatorship by social organizations and the banned political parties convulsed the country.
- And any sane person who knows the definitions of fascism and socialism - two terms diametrically opposed to each other, BTW - would KNOW that the last occupant of the White House had us under a fascist dictatorship. Propeller Most Popular Stories
- The first and most important task of the new administrative system is to abolish the dictatorship of the producer and to overcome the deficits of our economy. Inside Perestroika: The Future of the Soviet Economy
- Then I realized it wasn't Gantry of whom I was reminded so much as another Lewis character, Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip, the politician who poses as a populist, then once elected president turns the United States into a fascist dictatorship, aided by an angry, unknowing electorate and a paramilitary group called the Minute Men. Michael Winship: The Awful Price for Teaching Less Than We Know