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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
police state
noun
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▪ 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 warned against any attempt to set up a police state.
▪ Public help for the police in a police state is a rare luxury.
▪ The discipline of a police state was what he had grown up with, what suited his talents best.
▪ The rule of the Shoguns was feasible, of course, only under strict discipline and what amounted to a police state.
Wiktionary
police state

n. (context usually pejorative English) A polity whose government exercises strict and repressive control of the people, by means of police.

WordNet
police state

n. a country that maintains repressive control over the people by means of police (especially secret police)

Wikipedia
Police state

Police state is a term denoting a government that exercises power arbitrarily through the power of the police force. Originally the term designated a state regulated by a civil administration, but since the beginning of the 20th century, the term has "taken on an emotional and derogatory meaning" by describing an undesirable state of living characterized by the overbearing presence of the civil authorities.

The inhabitants of a police state may experience restrictions on their mobility, or on their freedom to express or communicate political or other views, which are subject to police monitoring or enforcement. Political control may be exerted by means of a secret police force which operates outside the boundaries normally imposed by a constitutional state. Robert von Mohl, who first introduced the rule of law to German jurisprudence, contrasted the Rechtsstaat ("legal" or "constitutional" state) with the anti- aristocratic Polizeistaat ("police state").

Police State (1989 film)

Police State is a 1989 Australian TV film about the Fitzgerald Inquiry.

Police State (2016 film)

Police State is an upcoming American sci-fi and adventure film written and directed by Kevin Arbouet. The film will star Sean Young, Seth Gilliam, Kristina Klebe, and Chris Riggi. The film is set to be released in 2016.

Police state (disambiguation)
  • Police state, a term denoting a government that exercises power arbitrarily
  • Police State (1989 film), Police State is a 1989 Australian TV film about the Fitzgerald Inquiry
  • Police State (2015 film), upcoming American sci-fi and adventure film
  • Police State (film), redirect to Police state
  • List of fictional police states, media ranging from novels to films[1] to video games
  • No to police state, All-Ukrainian civil campaign against police brutality

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.