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au·toc·racy (ô tä′krə sē)
noun
- government in which one person has absolute power; dictatorship; despotism
- pl. autocracies -·cies a country with this kind of government
- unlimited power or authority of one person over others
Etymology: Gr autokrateia, absolute power: see auto- & -cracy
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