MONOCRACY

dictatorship, absolutism, authoritarianism, Caesarism, despotism, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny

(noun) a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

monocracy (countable and uncountable, plural monocracies)

(rare) synonym of autocracy

Anagrams

• nomocracy

Source: Wiktionary


Mo*noc"ra*cy, n. Etym: [Mono- + -cracy, as in democracy.]

Definition: Government by a single person; undivided rule. Sydney Smith.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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COVERT

(adjective) secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed; “covert actions by the CIA”; “covert funding for the rebels”


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