authoritarian regime

1. 1.

   a government that concentrates political power in an authority not responsible to the people

   Synonymsauthoritarian state

   Broadergovernment

Questions about authoritarian regime

What does authoritarian regime mean?

authoritarian regime means "a government that concentrates political power in an authority not responsible to the people".

What is another word for authoritarian regime?

Close synonyms include authoritarian state. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is authoritarian regime a common word?

authoritarian regime is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.