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    POLITICAL SYSTEM

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    The members of a social organization who are in powerplay

    Synonyms:

    form of government; political system

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

    Hypernyms ("political system" is a kind of...):

    social group (people sharing some social relation)

    Meronyms (members of "political system"):

    political entity; political unit (a unit with political responsibilities)

    party; political party (an organization to gain political power)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "political system"):

    autarchy; autocracy (a political system governed by a single individual)

    constitutionalism (a constitutional system of government (usually with a written constitution))

    commonwealth; democracy; republic (a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them)

    diarchy; dyarchy (a form of government having two joint rulers)

    gerontocracy (a political system governed by old men)

    gynarchy; gynecocracy (a political system governed by a woman)

    hegemony (the dominance or leadership of one social group or nation over others)

    mobocracy; ochlocracy (a political system in which a mob is the source of control; government by the masses)

    oligarchy (a political system governed by a few people)

    plutocracy (a political system governed by the wealthy people)

    republic (a form of government whose head of state is not a monarch)

    technocracy (a form of government in which scientists and technical experts are in control)

    theocracy (a political unit governed by a deity (or by officials thought to be divinely guided))

    Holonyms ("political system" is a member of...):

    social organisation; social organization; social structure; social system; structure (the people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships)

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