English Dictionary

POLICE STATE

Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

IPA (US): 

 Dictionary entry overview: What does police state mean? 

POLICE STATE (noun)
  The noun POLICE STATE has 1 sense:

1. a country that maintains repressive control over the people by means of police (especially secret police)play

  Familiarity information: POLICE STATE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


POLICE STATE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A country that maintains repressive control over the people by means of police (especially secret police)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("police state" is a kind of...):

absolutism; authoritarianism; Caesarism; despotism; dictatorship; monocracy; one-man rule; shogunate; Stalinism; totalitarianism; tyranny (a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.))


 Learn English with... Proverbs 
"Like cures like." (English proverb)

"When the poor man is burried, the large bell of the parish is silent" (Breton proverb)

"Call someone your lord and he'll sell you in the slave market." (Arabic proverb)

"A disaster never comes alone." (Croatian proverb)



ALSO IN ENGLISH DICTIONARY:


© 2000-2023 AudioEnglish.org | AudioEnglish® is a Registered Trademark | Terms of use and privacy policy
Contact