police state

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.

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police state

Noun

a state in which a government controls people's freedom through the police

Thesaurus

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.)

Translations

police state n → estado policial

police state n → état policier

police state police n (Pol) → Polizeistaat m

police state n → stato di polizia