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1. Of the nature of, or pertaining to, an autocrat; absolute in authority, despotic.
2. The principles or practices of autocrats.

Government or rule by barbarians, as that of Italy by the German emperors.

1. Administration of a government chiefly through bureaus or departments staffed with nonelected officials.
2. Departments and their officials as a group.
3. Management or administration marked by hierarchical authority among numerous offices and by fixed procedures.
4. The administrative structure of a large or complex organization; such as, a midlevel manager in a corporate bureaucracy.
5. An administrative system in which the need or inclination to follow rigid or complex procedures impedes effective action; for example, innovative ideas that get bogged down in red tape and bureaucracy.

1. Government by officials collectively.
2. Rule by “desks” or government officials who "govern the desks".

The shopkeeping “interest” or class.

New government.

New people’s government.

1. A government that rules by a "strong hand" or by physical force.
2. The state of being ruled by force (literally by a strong hand).

The rule or government of Christ or a government based on the teachings of Christ versus materialistic or perceived non-Christian beliefs.

1. Rule by a single race.
2. A ruling class of a particular color; e.g. of white men.

Rule of the wealthy; plutocracy.

Government control, or rule, of the whole world.

Lord or ruler of the world; “the prince of this world”.

1. Government by the people; that form of government in which the sovereign power resides in the people as a whole, and is exercised either directly by them (as in the small republics of antiquity) or by officers elected by them.

In modern usage, often more vaguely denoting a social state in which everyone has equal rights, without hereditary or arbitrary differences of rank or privilege.

2. A state or community in which the government is vested in the people as a whole.
3. The free and equal right of every person to participate in a system of government, often practiced by electing representatives of the people by the people.
4. A country with a government which has been elected freely and equally by all its citizens.
5. The control of an organization by its members, who have a free and equal right to participate in decision-making processes.

1. Someone who believes in democracy and the democratic system of government and argues in favor of them.
2. An adherent or advocate of democracy; originally, one of the republicans of the French Revolution of 1790 (opposed to aristocrats).
3. A member of the Democratic party, a political party in the U.S.