Synonyms for autocracy
ɔˈtɒk rə siau·toc·ra·cy

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1. autocracy, autarchynoun

   a political system governed by a single individual

   Synonyms:
   autarchy, autarky

2. autocracynoun

   a political theory favoring unlimited authority by a single individual

   Synonyms:
   autarchy

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1. • Political Orientation
   • Political System

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1. autocracynoun

   Synonyms:
   dictatorship, absolutism, despotism, tyranny, arbitrary power, absolute power

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1. autocracynoun

   Synonyms:
   absolutism, despotism, dictatorship, self government, autonomy

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1. List of paraphrases for "autocracy":

   authoritarianism

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How to use autocracy in a sentence?

1. Jason Mann:

   This is redefining the global order as we speak. This is democracy versus autocracy. Do we want to let autocracy control more people’s lives in the future or prevent it from doing that ever again?

2. Bill Clinton:

   This struggle is between autocracy and democracy from our country to places we can’t even believe we’re being compared to.

3. Perth Tolle:

   Investors have underestimated autocracy risk.

4. President Duque:

   I'm not going to enter into a dispute with President López Obrador, I have a good relationship with him. But maybe if we disagree on that, I respectfully disagree because I think this forum is not a forum for dictatorships to participate. It's clearly the value of democracy that has united the hemisphere, the Democratic Inter-American Charter that was signed on September 11, 2001, is the major achievement in diplomatic terms where we have rejected any form of autocracy in the hemisphere. So this was not a forum for autocrats. This is a forum for people who clearly embrace the value of democracy.

5. Joseph Schumpeter:

   It is not true that democracy will always safeguard freedom of conscience better than autocracy. Witness the most famous of all trials. Pilate was, from the standpoint of the Jews, certainly the representative of autocracy. Yet he tried to protect freedom. And he yielded to a democracy.