dictatorship

[Dic*ta·tor*ship]

A dictatorship is a government or a social situation where one person makes all the rules and decisions without input from anyone else.

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

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


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


Dictatorship

Dic*ta"tor*ship , n. The office, or the term of office, of a dictator; hence, absolute power.

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

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Usage Examples

It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship.

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.

Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny democracy, not dictatorship the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.

I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.

It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.

Jazz is about freedom within discipline. Usually a dictatorship like in Russia and Germany will prevent jazz from being played because it just seemed to represent freedom, democracy and the United States.

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Other Usage Examples

When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

In Spain, we should have enough intelligence, enough sense of individual and collective responsibility to do for ourselves that which would be imposed upon us by a dictatorship.

Aren't we at the point where the closer we get to chaos, the more concern that there should be about coming to the table and compromising with Democrats? This is not leadership. This is almost like dictatorship.

The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes the dictatorship of the few instead of the initiative of the millions can produce a happier or more prosperous society.

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.

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