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What does autocracy mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word autocracy? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. (uncountable) A form of government in which unlimited power is held by a single individual.
  2. (countable) An instance of this government.
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Meanwhile, the Maoists appealed for a united front against feudal autocracy.
And as a form of social protest against autocracy and political tyranny, there is no medium that can surpass cartoons.
For a time it seemed that the dynastic cycle might be broken and traditional autocracy could be in the process of transmutation.
For the tsar, Russia was not the invulnerable bastion of autocracy and the invincible victor over Napoleon that she seemed to foreigners.
I hope that the council will now return to democracy rather than autocracy.
Kenya was an autocracy that became an anocracy after the reintroduction of multiparty politics in the 1990s.

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