nondemocracy

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noun

Any political system that is not democratic.

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Meanings

nounnondemocracy (countable and uncountable, plural nondemocracies)

plural nondemocracies · alternative non-democracy

  1. uncountableAny political system that is not democratic.

    In democracy, the citizens get relatively higher benefits; the elites benefit in nondemocracy.

    2006, Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson, Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy, page 176
  2. countableA regime, country etc. that is not democratic.

    Jeffrey Toobin, a lawyer and legal commentator, called the move “a grotesque abuse of power by the president of the United States”. “This is the kind of thing that goes on in non-democracies,” Toobin said.

    2017 May 10, Julian Borger, The Guardian

Origin

From non- + democracy.

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