"kleptocracy" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: kleptocracies [plural]
Etymology: From klepto- + -cracy. Etymology templates: {{confix|en|klepto|cracy}} klepto- + -cracy Head templates: {{en-noun}} kleptocracy (plural kleptocracies)
  1. A corrupt and dishonest government or society characterised by greed. Wikipedia link: kleptocracy Categories (topical): Corruption, Forms of government Synonyms: corruptocracy, kleptarchy, cleptocracy Derived forms: narcokleptocracy Related terms: kleptocrat, kleptocratic, mafia state Translations (corrupt and dishonest government): kleptokraci [feminine] (Albanian), كْلِيبْتُقْرَاطِيَّة (klībtuqrāṭiyya) [feminine] (Arabic), ավազակապետություն (avazakapetutʻyun) (Armenian), kleptokratiya (Azerbaijani), клептакра́тыя (kljeptakrátyja) [feminine] (Belarusian), клептокра́ция (kleptokrácija) [feminine] (Bulgarian), cleptocràcia [feminine] (Catalan), 竊盜統治 (Chinese Mandarin), 窃盗统治 (qièdàotǒngzhì) (Chinese Mandarin), 盜賊統治 (Chinese Mandarin), 盗贼统治 (dàozéi tǒngzhì) (Chinese Mandarin), kleptokracie [feminine] (Czech), kleptokrati [common-gender] (Danish), kleptocratie [feminine] (Dutch), kleptokraatia (Estonian), kleptokratia (Finnish), kleptocratie [feminine] (French), კლეპტოკრატია (ḳleṗṭoḳraṭia) (Georgian), Kleptokratie [feminine] (German), Diebesherrschaft [feminine] (German), κλεπτοκρατία (kleptokratía) [feminine] (Greek), קלפטוקרטיה (kleptokrátya) [feminine] (Hebrew), क्लेप्टोक्रेसी (klepṭokresī) (Hindi), चोर-तंत्र (cor-tantra) (Hindi), kleptokrácia (Hungarian), þjófræði [neuter] (Icelandic), kleptokrasi (Indonesian), cleptocrazia [feminine] (Italian), 泥棒政治 (alt: どろぼうせいじ) (Japanese), クレプトクラシー (Japanese), клептократия (kleptokratiä) (Kazakh), 도둑정치 (dodukjeongchi) (Korean), клептократия (kleptokratiya) (Kyrgyz), kleptokrātija [feminine] (Latvian), kleptokratija [feminine] (Lithuanian), клептократија (kleptokratija) [feminine] (Macedonian), kleptokrasi (Malay), kleptokrati [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), kleptokrati [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), دزدسالاری (dozdsâlâri) (Persian), کلپتوکراسی (kleptokrâsi) (Persian), kleptokracja [feminine] (Polish), cleptocracia [feminine] (Portuguese), cleptocrație [feminine] (Romanian), клептокра́тия (kleptokrátija) [feminine] (Russian), клептократија [Cyrillic, Serbia, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), клептокрација [Croatia, Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), kleptokratija [Roman, Serbia, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), kleptokracija [Croatia, Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), kleptokracia [feminine] (Slovak), kleptokracija [feminine] (Slovene), cleptocracia [feminine] (Spanish), kleptokrati [common-gender] (Swedish), клептократия (kleptokratiya) (Tajik), дуздсолорӣ (duzdsolori) (Tajik), โจราธิปไตย (Thai), kleptokrasi (Turkish), kleptokratiýa (Turkmen), клептокра́тія (kleptokrátija) [feminine] (Ukrainian), kleptokratiya (Uzbek), chế độ đạo tặc (Vietnamese)
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          "lang": "Malay",
          "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
          "word": "kleptokrasi"
        },
        {
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "kleptokrati"
        },
        {
          "code": "nn",
          "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
          "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "kleptokrati"
        },
        {
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "dozdsâlâri",
          "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
          "word": "دزدسالاری"
        },
        {
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "kleptokrâsi",
          "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
          "word": "کلپتوکراسی"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "kleptokracja"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "cleptocracia"
        },
        {
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "cleptocrație"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "kleptokrátija",
          "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "клептокра́тия"
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        {
          "code": "sh",
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          "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
          "tags": [
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            "Serbia",
            "feminine"
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          "word": "клептократија"
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            "feminine"
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          "word": "клептокрација"
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        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
          "tags": [
            "Roman",
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            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "kleptokratija"
        },
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          "code": "sh",
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            "Roman",
            "feminine"
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          "word": "kleptokracija"
        },
        {
          "code": "sk",
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "kleptokracia"
        },
        {
          "code": "sl",
          "lang": "Slovene",
          "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "kleptokracija"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "cleptocracia"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "kleptokrati"
        },
        {
          "code": "tg",
          "lang": "Tajik",
          "roman": "kleptokratiya",
          "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
          "word": "клептократия"
        },
        {
          "code": "tg",
          "lang": "Tajik",
          "roman": "duzdsolori",
          "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
          "word": "дуздсолорӣ"
        },
        {
          "code": "th",
          "lang": "Thai",
          "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
          "word": "โจราธิปไตย"
        },
        {
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
          "word": "kleptokrasi"
        },
        {
          "code": "tk",
          "lang": "Turkmen",
          "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
          "word": "kleptokratiýa"
        },
        {
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "kleptokrátija",
          "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "клептокра́тія"
        },
        {
          "code": "uz",
          "lang": "Uzbek",
          "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
          "word": "kleptokratiya"
        },
        {
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
          "word": "chế độ đạo tặc"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "kleptocracy"
      ]
    }
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}
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    {
      "word": "narcokleptocracy"
    }
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      "name": "confix"
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        "Terms with Arabic translations",
        "Terms with Armenian translations",
        "Terms with Azerbaijani translations",
        "Terms with Belarusian translations",
        "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
        "Terms with Catalan translations",
        "Terms with Czech translations",
        "Terms with Danish translations",
        "Terms with Dutch translations",
        "Terms with Estonian translations",
        "Terms with Finnish translations",
        "Terms with French translations",
        "Terms with Georgian translations",
        "Terms with German translations",
        "Terms with Greek translations",
        "Terms with Hebrew translations",
        "Terms with Hindi translations",
        "Terms with Hungarian translations",
        "Terms with Icelandic translations",
        "Terms with Indonesian translations",
        "Terms with Italian translations",
        "Terms with Japanese translations",
        "Terms with Kazakh translations",
        "Terms with Korean translations",
        "Terms with Kyrgyz translations",
        "Terms with Latvian translations",
        "Terms with Lithuanian translations",
        "Terms with Macedonian translations",
        "Terms with Malay translations",
        "Terms with Mandarin translations",
        "Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations",
        "Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations",
        "Terms with Persian translations",
        "Terms with Polish translations",
        "Terms with Portuguese translations",
        "Terms with Romanian translations",
        "Terms with Russian translations",
        "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
        "Terms with Slovak translations",
        "Terms with Slovene translations",
        "Terms with Spanish translations",
        "Terms with Swedish translations",
        "Terms with Tajik translations",
        "Terms with Thai translations",
        "Terms with Turkish translations",
        "Terms with Turkmen translations",
        "Terms with Ukrainian translations",
        "Terms with Uzbek translations",
        "Terms with Vietnamese translations",
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        {
          "ref": "2013 June 7, Gary Younge, “Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 18:",
          "text": "WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, but could not prove, and would cite as they took to the streets.",
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      "code": "sq",
      "lang": "Albanian",
      "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "kleptokraci"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
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      "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "كْلِيبْتُقْرَاطِيَّة"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "avazakapetutʻyun",
      "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
      "word": "ավազակապետություն"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
      "word": "kleptokratiya"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "kljeptakrátyja",
      "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "клептакра́тыя"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "kleptokrácija",
      "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "клептокра́ция"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "cleptocràcia"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
      "word": "竊盜統治"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "qièdàotǒngzhì",
      "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
      "word": "窃盗统治"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
      "word": "盜賊統治"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "dàozéi tǒngzhì",
      "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
      "word": "盗贼统治"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "kleptokracie"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
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      "word": "kleptokrati"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "kleptocratie"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
      "word": "kleptokraatia"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
      "word": "kleptokratia"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "kleptocratie"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "ḳleṗṭoḳraṭia",
      "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
      "word": "კლეპტოკრატია"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Kleptokratie"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Diebesherrschaft"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "kleptokratía",
      "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "κλεπτοκρατία"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "kleptokrátya",
      "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "קלפטוקרטיה"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "klepṭokresī",
      "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
      "word": "क्लेप्टोक्रेसी"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "cor-tantra",
      "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
      "word": "चोर-तंत्र"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
      "word": "kleptokrácia"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "þjófræði"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
      "word": "kleptokrasi"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "cleptocrazia"
    },
    {
      "alt": "どろぼうせいじ",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
      "word": "泥棒政治"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
      "word": "クレプトクラシー"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "kleptokratiä",
      "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
      "word": "клептократия"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "dodukjeongchi",
      "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
      "word": "도둑정치"
    },
    {
      "code": "ky",
      "lang": "Kyrgyz",
      "roman": "kleptokratiya",
      "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
      "word": "клептократия"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "kleptokrātija"
    },
    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "kleptokratija"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "kleptokratija",
      "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "клептократија"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
      "word": "kleptokrasi"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "kleptokrati"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "kleptokrati"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "dozdsâlâri",
      "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
      "word": "دزدسالاری"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "kleptokrâsi",
      "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
      "word": "کلپتوکراسی"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "kleptokracja"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "cleptocracia"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "cleptocrație"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "kleptokrátija",
      "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "клептокра́тия"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "Serbia",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "клептократија"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
      "tags": [
        "Croatia",
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "клептокрација"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "Serbia",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "kleptokratija"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
      "tags": [
        "Croatia",
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "kleptokracija"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "kleptokracia"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "kleptokracija"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "cleptocracia"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "kleptokrati"
    },
    {
      "code": "tg",
      "lang": "Tajik",
      "roman": "kleptokratiya",
      "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
      "word": "клептократия"
    },
    {
      "code": "tg",
      "lang": "Tajik",
      "roman": "duzdsolori",
      "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
      "word": "дуздсолорӣ"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
      "word": "โจราธิปไตย"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
      "word": "kleptokrasi"
    },
    {
      "code": "tk",
      "lang": "Turkmen",
      "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
      "word": "kleptokratiýa"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "kleptokrátija",
      "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "клептокра́тія"
    },
    {
      "code": "uz",
      "lang": "Uzbek",
      "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
      "word": "kleptokratiya"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "corrupt and dishonest government",
      "word": "chế độ đạo tặc"
    }
  ],
  "word": "kleptocracy"
}

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.