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autocracy

/aw-tok-ruh-see/US // ɔˈtɒk rə si //UK // (ɔːˈtɒkrəsɪ) //

专制主义,专制,专制制度,专政

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural au·toc·ra·cies.

    • : government in which one person has uncontrolled or unlimited authority over others; the government or power of an absolute monarch.
    • : a nation, state, or community ruled by an autocrat.
    • : unlimited authority, power, or influence of one person in any group.

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Examples

  • Oil and gas development has often been associated with autocracy and corruption.

  • India is now considered an “electoral autocracy” and a “partly free” country as its democratic credentials continue to plunge under Modi.

  • If we had to only rely on the government to tell us what it’s doing, we’d be living in an autocracy.

  • All the other countries involved in this really are autocracies.

  • It is sobering that the United States in 2020 seems to have an audience for autocracy, a constituency for authoritarianism.

  • The nature of the autocracy—that it was only answerable to itself—meant it could not draw its power from the people.

  • Ortega has dismissed the allegations of autocracy and fraud that have afflicted his presidency as politically motivated.

  • Autocracy is just a Russian bad habit, like smoking three packs of cigarettes a day and drinking a liter of vodka.

  • The remaining two-thirds reacted to increasing anarchy in traditional Russian fashion, by increasing autocracy.

  • It was a strange world, or seems so in retrospect, built as it was of equal parts meritocracy and autocracy.

  • Against an autocracy as powerful as the Romanoff dynasty, rebels have never before contended.

  • The cancer of autocracy is eating into the vitals of Austria.

  • The collapse of the Prussian autocracy involved that of the lesser German potentates.

  • Discusses various programs for the change from industrial autocracy to industrial democracy.

  • The close relation between finance and general policy is most impressively illustrated in this failure of benevolent autocracy.