Noun: one-man rule
- A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution, laws or opposition etc.)
"The country suffered under a brutal one-man rule for decades";
- dictatorship, absolutism, authoritarianism, Caesarism, despotism, monocracy, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny
Derived forms: one-man rules