Definition of monocracy in English:
monocracy
nounPlural monocracies məˈnɒkrəsimä-
mass nounA system of government by one person only.
Example sentencesExamples
- The monocracy located on Georgia's Black Sea coast remains in open confrontation with the Georgian Parliament and sustains close ties with Moscow.
Derivatives
noun mɒnə(ʊ)ˈkrat
Democratic-Republicans called their opponents ‘Tories’ and ‘monocrats’, not ‘Federalists.’
Example sentencesExamples
- The Prime Minister, with a record of broken promises and U-turns, is behaving like a monocrat offering Britain, without democratic debate, to a dictatorial Commission which has a less-than-ethical record.
- It was not a reprise of the Revolution of 1776 with Federalists in Tory roles as Anglophiles, aristocrats, or monocrats.
adjective mɒnə(ʊ)ˈkratɪk
Protests have had very little impact on a Government whose objective is to build a world competitive economy as long as it does not threaten the monocratic power of the Party.
Example sentencesExamples
- Our monocratic leader seems anxious to take us into a potential totalitarianism which could become what, in 1939-45, men, women and children suffered for and died to resist.
Rhymes
adhocracy, aristocracy, autocracy, bureaucracy, democracy, gerontocracy, gynaecocracy (US gynecocracy), hierocracy, hypocrisy, meritocracy, mobocracy, plutocracy, technocracy, theocracy