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Meanings of dictatorship in English
A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
Usage of dictatorship in English
1
It has been 30 years since the end of the military dictatorship.
2
A Franco-German war is therefore, for the Soviet dictatorship, a pathological obsession.
3
Some Maldivians viewed the election as a choice between dictatorship and democracy.
4
A dictatorship founded on that device might really last a thousand years.
5
Indonesia remained a military dictatorship for the rest of the cold war.
6
Of course, propaganda can always be changed at will in a dictatorship.
7
Conde was elected in 2010 after decades of dictatorship and authoritarian rule.
8
Following that were decades of dictatorship, civil war and relentless terrorist attacks.
9
It was the beginning of the end of the young Meza dictatorship.
10
No dictatorship is a democracy and none contains the seeds of liberty.
11
It is the only way to rescue them from the current dictatorship.
12
Critics say the congress would institutionalize dictatorship by the ruling Socialist Party.
13
Ever since Zia's dictatorship, the soldiers had been inoculated with Islamist ideology.
14
Unlike Libya, Syria is not an isolated dictatorship with a pushover army.
15
Europe's first single-party dictatorship in the name of the people had emerged.
16
Thailand remained under military dictatorship more than a decade after Donovan's departure.
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Translations for dictatorship
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Dictatorship through the time
Dictatorship across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common