Usually means: Government controls through excessive policing.
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  1. police state: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. police state: Merriam-Webster
  3. police state: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. police state: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. police state: Collins English Dictionary
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  8. police state: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. police state: Wiktionary
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  13. Police State, Police state: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  1. Police-state, police state: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (police state)

▸ noun:  (usually derogatory) A polity whose government exercises strict and repressive control of the people.

Similar:
prison state, policism, policeism, nanny state, 1984, totalitarianism, despotism, Nineteen Eighty-Four, dictatorship, statism, more...

Opposite:
democracy, freedom, liberty, autonomy

Phrases:
Military Police of Rio de Janeiro State, more...

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Similar:
prison state, policism, policeism, nanny state, 1984, totalitarianism, despotism, Nineteen Eighty-Four, dictatorship, statism, more...

Opposite:
democracy, freedom, liberty, autonomy

Phrases:
Military Police of Rio de Janeiro State, more...



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