Usually means: Authoritarian rule by one individual.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word dictatorship:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. dictatorship: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. dictatorship: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dictatorship: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dictatorship: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dictatorship: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dictatorship, dictatorship: Wordnik
  7. dictatorship: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. dictatorship: Wiktionary
  9. dictatorship: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dictatorship: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. dictatorship: Dictionary.com
  12. dictatorship: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Dictatorship: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Dictatorship: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. dictatorship: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. dictatorship: Rhymezone
  17. Dictatorship: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. dictatorship: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. dictatorship: Free Dictionary
  20. dictatorship: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. dictatorship: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. dictatorship: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dictatorship: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Political (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dictatorship: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  A type of government where absolute sovereignty is allotted to an individual or a small clique.
noun:  A government which exercises autocratic rule.
noun:  Any household, institution, or other organization that is run under such sovereignty or autocracy.

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