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AUTHORITARIAN STATE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A government that concentrates political power in an authority not responsible to the people
Synonyms:
authoritarian regime; authoritarian state
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("authoritarian state" is a kind of...):
authorities; government; regime (the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit)