autocracy, n.
(autocracies)
a political theory favoring unlimited authority by a single individual
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autocracy
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a political system governed by a single individual
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autarchy
autocracy
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derivationally related form
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monarchy
dictatorship, tyranny, absolutism, authoritarianism, Caesarism, despotism, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism