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autocrat
[ aw-tuh-krat ]
noun
- an absolute ruler, especially a monarch who holds and exercises the powers of government as by inherent right, not subject to restrictions.
- a person invested with or claiming to exercise absolute authority.
- a person who behaves in an authoritarian manner; a domineering person.
autocrat
/ ˈɔːtəˌkræt /
noun
- a ruler who possesses absolute and unrestricted authority
- a domineering or dictatorial person
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Example Sentences
These reforms were mostly designed to reassure Sunnis and Kurds that Maliki would not become an autocrat.
Beholden to a base that, like a capricious autocrat, will turn against them at the slightest provocation.
Nothing humbles an autocrat quite like the need to grub for votes.
Tunisia was the first in a string of Middle Eastern countries to go through autocrat-toppling protests.
But the issue should not be where a wounded autocrat convalesces.
It was the case with the agricultural communities of the southern United States, whose Mico was at once high priest and autocrat.
Humble as Lecamus seemed to the outer world, he was despotic in his own home; there he was an autocrat.
She has always had the germ of the ruler and autocrat in her soul.
The Irish Minister for Agriculture by no means rules as an autocrat.
It was curious how he was growing to be a kind of autocrat in the village; and how unconscious he was of it.
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