Autocracy

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Government by a single person having unlimited power; despotism.
  • n. A country or state that is governed by a single person with unlimited power.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A form of government in which unlimited power is held by a single individual.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Independent or self-derived power; absolute or controlling authority; supremacy.
  • n. Supreme, uncontrolled, unlimited authority, or right of governing in a single person, as of an autocrat.
  • n. Political independence or absolute sovereignty (of a state); autonomy.
  • n. The action of the vital principle, or of the instinctive powers, toward the preservation of the individual; also, the vital principle.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The power of determining one's own actions; independent or self-derived power; self-government; self-rule.
  • n. Uncontrolled or unlimited authority over others, invested in a single person; the government or power of an absolute monarch.
  • n. In medicine, action of the vital powers toward the preservation of the individual.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a political theory favoring unlimited authority by a single individual
  • n. a political system governed by a single individual
  • Variant
    autocrasy   
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    supremacy    autonomy    monarchy    despotism    absolutism   
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