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autocrat

/aw-tuh-krat/US // ˈɔ təˌkræt //UK // (ˈɔːtəˌkræt) //

独裁者,专制者,专制主义者,特立独行者

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an absolute ruler, especially a monarch who holds and exercises the powers of government as by inherent right, not subject to restrictions.
    • : a person invested with or claiming to exercise absolute authority.
    • : a person who behaves in an authoritarian manner; a domineering person.

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Examples

  • Quesada has legalized same-sex marriage, taken on leftist autocrats like Venezuela’s Nicholás Maduro and driven an ambitious green agenda, including a plan to reduce to zero all carbon emissions — and not just net pollution — by 2050.

  • These cryptosocialists view digital money as a valuable ally in everything from achieving equitable housing distribution to defeating autocrats.

  • He had worked for many years in the Middle East and Africa, dealing with warlords and autocrats who could become new clients for Ukrainian weapons and aircraft.

  • It’s a sucker punch that has worked for teenagers and autocrats alike for millennia.

  • In his plays, you always have the autocrats, who want to control others, and then you have the purer people, usually younger characters, like Hamlet, who propose love, who pursue a humanitarian vision against them.

  • These reforms were mostly designed to reassure Sunnis and Kurds that Maliki would not become an autocrat.

  • Beholden to a base that, like a capricious autocrat, will turn against them at the slightest provocation.

  • Nothing humbles an autocrat quite like the need to grub for votes.

  • Tunisia was the first in a string of Middle Eastern countries to go through autocrat-toppling protests.

  • But the issue should not be where a wounded autocrat convalesces.

  • It was the case with the agricultural communities of the southern United States, whose Mico was at once high priest and autocrat.

  • Humble as Lecamus seemed to the outer world, he was despotic in his own home; there he was an autocrat.

  • She has always had the germ of the ruler and autocrat in her soul.

  • The Irish Minister for Agriculture by no means rules as an autocrat.

  • It was curious how he was growing to be a kind of autocrat in the village; and how unconscious he was of it.