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[syn: dictatorship, absolutism, authoritarianism, Caesarism, despotism, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Monocracy \Mo*noc"ra*cy\, n. [Mono- + -cracy, as in democracy.]
Government by a single person; undivided rule. --Sydney
Smith.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
monocracy
n 1: a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute
dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or
opposition etc.) [syn: dictatorship, absolutism,
authoritarianism, Caesarism, despotism, monocracy,
one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism,
totalitarianism, tyranny]