political system

1. 1.

   the members of a social organization who are in power

   Synonymsform of government

   Broadersocial group

   Narrowerautocracyconstitutionalismdemocracydiarchygerontocracygynecocracyhegemonymobocracyoligarchyplutocracy

   Part ofsocial organization

Questions about political system

What does political system mean?

political system means "the members of a social organization who are in power".

What is another word for political system?

Close synonyms include form of government. 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 political system a common word?

political system 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.