'police state' definitions:
Definition of 'police state'
(from WordNet)
noun
A country that maintains repressive control over the people by means of police (especially secret police)
Synonyms of 'police state'
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- absolute monarchy,
- aristocracy,
- autarchy,
- autocracy,
- autonomy,
- coalition government,
- colonialism,
- commonwealth,
- constitutional government,
- constitutional monarchy,
- democracy,
- dictatorship,
- dominion rule,
- duarchy,
- duumvirate,
- dyarchy,
- federal government,
- federation,
- feudal system,
- garrison state,
- gerontocracy,
- heteronomy,
- hierarchy,
- hierocracy,
- home rule,
- limited monarchy,
- martial law,
- meritocracy,
- militarism,
- military government,
- mob rule,
- mobocracy,
- monarchy,
- neocolonialism,
- ochlocracy,
- oligarchy,
- pantisocracy,
- patriarchate,
- patriarchy,
- pure democracy,
- regency,
- representative democracy,
- representative government,
- republic,
- self-determination,
- self-government,
- social democracy,
- stratocracy,
- technocracy,
- thearchy,
- theocracy,
- totalitarian government,
- totalitarian regime,
- triarchy,
- triumvirate,
- tyranny,
- welfare state