Definition of stratocracy in English:
stratocracy
nounPlural stratocracies strəˈtɒkrəsistrəˈtäkrəsē
mass nounrare 1Government by military forces.
Example sentencesExamples
- Ghana has been integral to the norm of the morally and psychologically daunting era of stratocracy rather than the exception, as one would have had it.
- Neofascism and stratocracy are rife.
- The important stratocracy persons in the Republic of China visited here respectively, including the chairman Linsen.
- The obvious problem for a Western audience is that the none-too-subtle political message of ‘Hero’ is that stratocracy is good for you.
- 1.1count noun A military government.
Example sentencesExamples
- Back in 1972, when he was in self-imposed exile in New York because of the Greek stratocracy, he staged a musical version of Aristophanes’ play on Broadway, starring the late Melina Mercouri, who had also left Greece.
- The vetting out of ‘outsiders’ was not the only kind gesture of these commanders of the Iranian stratocracy.
- Rather stratocracies are found only among countries that support immobile light and medium forces.
- It all began with the Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan in 1979, when the United States, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia supported Islamist rebels fighting the Moscow-backed Marxist stratocracy in Kabul.
- We live in a nascent stratocracy - a government ruled by military.
- This pact has led to the point of an almost total control by the stratocracy which resulted from interweaving modern science and technology with national, social and public interest.
Origin
Mid 17th century: from Greek stratos 'army' + -cracy.