| police state n. A state in which the government exercises rigid and repressive controls over the social, economic, and political life of the people, especially by means of a secret police force. |
police state
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(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a state or country in which a repressive government maintains control through the police
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| Noun | 1. |  police state - a country that maintains repressive control over the people by means of police (especially secret police)dictatorship, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny, authoritarianism, Caesarism, despotism, absolutism - a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) |
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