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Police state   /pəlˈis steɪt/   Listen
Police state

noun
1.
A country that maintains repressive control over the people by means of police (especially secret police).





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"Police state" Quotes from Famous Books



... priesthoods. They'd made a nice thing for themselves and didn't want to see anything happen to it. It's not the only time a group in the saddle has held up progress for the sake of remaining there. Priests, slave-owners, feudalistic barons, or bureaucrats of a twentieth-century police state, a ruling clique will never give up power ...
— Adaptation • Dallas McCord Reynolds
... he was a traitor, by one definition. Only it seemed to him that a man had a right to choose his own loyalties. Having experienced what the police state meant, he would have been untrue to himself if he had yielded ...
— Security • Poul William Anderson


Words linked to "Police state" :   monocracy, tyranny, Stalinism, dictatorship, authoritarianism, shogunate, absolutism, totalitarianism, despotism, Caesarism, one-man rule


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