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n. The office or tenure of a dictator.

n. A state or government under dictatorial rule.

n. Absolute or despotic control or power.

n. A type of government where absolute sovereignty is allotted to an individual or a small clique.

n. A government which exercises autocratic rule.

n. The office, or the term of office, of a dictator; hence, absolute power.

n. The office or dignity of a dictator; the term of a dictator's office.

n. Absolute authority; dogmatism.

n. a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)

"And so the dictatorship of the proletariat becomes the _dictatorship of a single person_, a super-boss and industrial autocrat: We must learn to combine the stormy, energetic breaking of all restraint on the part of the toiling masses _with iron discipline during work, with absolute submission to the will of one person, the Soviet director, during work_. ["

autocracy    autarchy   

police state   

dictatorship of the majority   

dictator    autocracy    despotism    régime    socialism