Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun police_state

1 sense of police state

Sense 1
police state -- (a country that maintains repressive control over the people by means of police (especially secret police))
       => dictatorship, absolutism, authoritarianism, Caesarism, despotism, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny -- (a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.))