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monocracy
n.
autocracy, dictatorship, government by one individual
Autocracy
An
autocracy is a
system of government in which supreme power is concentrated in the hands of one person, whose decisions are subject to neither external legal restraints nor regularized mechanisms of popular control (except perhaps for the implicit threat of a
coup d'état or mass
insurrection).
Absolute monarchy and
dictatorship are the main historical forms of autocracy.
monocracy
Noun
1. a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
(synonym) dictatorship, absolutism, authoritarianism, Caesarism, despotism, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny
(hypernym) autocracy, autarchy
(hyponym) police state
Monocracy
(n.)
Government by a single person; undivided rule.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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