1.[countableC, uncountableU]PG government by a ruler who has complete power 独裁,专制,专政► see thesaurus at government
2.[countableC]PG a country that is ruled by one person who has complete power 独裁国家
Examples from the Corpus
dictatorship• Britain in mid-1979 was unlikely to lurch into any drastictransformation, let alone a dictatorship.• This was to have a United Nations as a world policeman, able to intervene against dictatorships which threaten other countries.• How do we explain the rise in Europeandictatorship in the 1930s?• Is dictatorship more easily defined than democracy?• Everything is now in place for a rigged election that seems likely to usher in a militarydictatorship.• In 1971, the country's 10 year military dictatorship came to an end.• The political difficulties included the moraldictatorship of Pandit Nehru and his family, which posedformidablesuccession problems.• That is carried to such an extreme that we will recognise dictatorships and ignore the coups which bring some despots to power.• Ethiopia's dictatorship was toppled by Eritrean and Ethiopian rebels.• Residencepermits are a remnant of Stalin's dictatorship.• Despite the dictatorship, majorunrest broke out.• Pressphotos by Nancy Urrut a dating from 1980 give an appallingview into what daily life in the dictatorship looked like.• The country has been moving toward dictatorship.