Police state (original) (raw)
I. (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.))