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police state

DEFINITIONS OF: police state

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n a country that maintains repressive control over the people by means of police (especially secret police)

Type of:
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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