Noun: police state pu'lees steyt
- A country that maintains repressive control over the people by means of police (especially secret police)
"The dictatorship had turned the country into a police state"
Derived forms: police states
Type of: absolutism, authoritarianism, Caesarism, despotism, dictatorship, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny
Encyclopedia: Police state