Usually means: Government directly controls a region.
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  1. direct rule: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. direct rule: Collins English Dictionary
  3. direct rule: Wiktionary
  4. direct rule: Dictionary.com
  5. Direct rule (Northern Ireland), Direct rule: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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noun:  (particularly in Northern Ireland) Control by the central government of an area that has had its own governing body in the past.

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