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police state
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Wikipedia
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Police State is a 1989 Australian TV film about the Fitzgerald Inquiry .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But if police safety is what we want, it seems that is most easily achieved in a police state . ▪ Here, in the regressive, infantile wish for the perfect parent of early childhood lies the germ of the police state . ▪ Others ...
Wiktionary
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n. (context usually pejorative English) A polity whose government exercises strict and repressive control of the people, by means of police.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a country that maintains repressive control over the people by means of police (especially secret police)
Usage examples of police state.
Honest to God, after a few days you're gut-sure you're in a miniature police state, where the control is so subtle you can hardly see it but still complete, iron-fisted.
Since the 29th police attacks have been worse, either the people control the police, or we are living in a police state.
SINCE THE 29TH POLICE ATTACKS HAVE BEEN WORSE, EITHER THE PEOPLE CONTROL THE POLICE, OR WE ARE LIVING IN A POLICE STATE.
He was no doubt cunning and dangerous, but, like the police in a police state, he was too used to getting instant gratification.
If you're operating a police state you have to keep your borders shut.
And if we got rid of the police, how could we ever have a police state?
This guy, Jesus, he's going to try to--we're talking a police state here, Pete.
If you compromised one of your agents, you might have trouble sleeping at night, because CIA was usually active in countries where the Miranda warning was delivered by a gun or knife or fist, or something just as bad -- as unpleasant as a police state could make it, and that, the instructors had told his class, could be pretty fuckin' unpleasant.