autocracy
B2CEFR level
45/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
A system of government in which one person holds unlimited power.
The abolition of checks on the ruler transformed the republic into an autocracy.
Business noun
A system of governance in which one person holds absolute power.
What looked like decisive leadership was really an autocracy that could not survive the founder's departure.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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