dyarchy
Americannoun
PLURAL
dyarchiesnoun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Other Word Forms
- dyarchic adjective
- dyarchical adjective
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In the American republic’s slow transformation into a judicial-executive dyarchy, with a vestigial legislature that lets the major controversies get settled by imperial presidents and jurists, Anthony Kennedy occupied a particularly important role.
From New York Times
A Chinese democracy is almost a dyarchy of majority and officialdom, the one revising and checking the other.
From Project Gutenberg
The designation suited the early years of the Empire, in which a dyarchy of princeps and senate had been maintained.
From Project Gutenberg
The division of the provinces between Augustus and the Senate in 27 B. C. had the effect of creating an administrative dyarchy, or joint rule of two independent authorities, for the empire.
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As one Provincial Governor remarked to me, "We are in reality skipping the dyarchy stage."
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