"police state" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: police states [plural]
Etymology: Likely a calque of German Polizeistaat adopted following the Carlsbad Decrees of 1819 and the ensuing Demagogenverfolgungen, culminating in the crackdown of liberal and anarchical movements popular in the 1840s during the German revolutions of 1848–1849. Equivalent to police + state. Etymology templates: {{calque|en|de|Polizeistaat|nocap=1}} calque of German Polizeistaat, {{com|en|police|state}} police + state Head templates: {{en-noun}} police state (plural police states)
  1. (usually derogatory) A polity whose government exercises strict and repressive control of the people. Wikipedia link: Carlsbad Decrees, German revolutions of 1848–1849, de:Demagogenverfolgung, police state Tags: derogatory, usually Categories (topical): Government, Law enforcement Related terms: secret police, totalitarianism Translations (nation whose government controls people by police): polisiestaat [singular] (Afrikaans), دَوْلَة بُولِيسِيَّة (dawla būlīsiyya) [feminine] (Arabic), دَوْلَة شُرْطِيَّة (dawla šurṭiyya) [feminine] (Arabic), ոստիկանական պետություն (ostikanakan petutʻyun) (Armenian), ոստիկանապետություն (ostikanapetutʻyun) (Armenian), estáu policial [masculine] (Asturian), polizia estatu (Basque), паліцэ́йская дзяржа́ва (palicéjskaja dzjaržáva) [feminine] (Belarusian), полице́йска държа́ва (policéjska dǎržáva) [feminine] (Bulgarian), estat policia [masculine] (Catalan), 警察國家 /警察国家 (jǐngchá guójiā) (Chinese Mandarin), policejní stát [masculine] (Czech), politistat [common-gender] (Danish), politiestaat [masculine] (Dutch), polica ŝtato (Esperanto), politseiriik (Estonian), poliisivaltio (Finnish), État policier [masculine] (French), estado policial [masculine] (Galician), პოლიციური სახელმწიფო (ṗoliciuri saxelmc̣ipo) (Georgian), Polizeistaat [masculine] (German), αστυνομικό κράτος (astynomikó krátos) [neuter] (Greek), αστυνομοκρατία (astynomokratía) [feminine] (Greek), पुलिस राज्य (pulis rājya) [masculine] (Hindi), rendőrállam (Hungarian), lögregluríki [neuter] (Icelandic), negara polisi (Indonesian), stato di polizia [masculine] (Italian), 警察国家 (keisatsu kokka) (alt: けいさつこっか) (Japanese), 경찰 국가 (gyeongchal gukga) (alt: 警察國家) (Korean), policijas valsts [feminine] (Latvian), policinė valstybė [feminine] (Lithuanian), stat de polizia [masculine] (Lombard), полициска држава (policiska država) (Macedonian), negara polis (Malay), politistat [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), politistat [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), państwo policyjne [neuter] (Polish), estado policial [masculine] (Portuguese), stat polițienesc [neuter] (Romanian), полице́йское госуда́рство (policéjskoje gosudárstvo) [neuter] (Russian), полицијска држава [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), policijska država [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), policajný štát [masculine] (Slovak), policȋjska držȃva [feminine] (Slovene), estado policial [masculine] (Spanish), polisstat [common-gender] (Swedish), estadong pulis (Tagalog), polis devleti (Turkish), поліці́йна держа́ва (policíjna deržáva) [feminine] (Ukrainian), поліце́йська держа́ва (policéjsʹka deržáva) [feminine] (Ukrainian), nhà nước cảnh sát (Vietnamese)
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          "text": "[Mo:] But out there in the real world they're bombing abortion clinics... holding Nazi and KKK rallies... trying to quarantine people who might have AIDS. They're making secret weapons deals to illegally fund so-called \"freedom fighters\" and calling it \"the Lord's work\"!! We're living in a Protestant police state […]",
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          "text": "A gun up in our faces and they never gave a reason / The writing's on the wall, the politics are fake / Its clear to me we're livin' in a police state […] The prisons are for profit, its society's mistake / How macabre, we been living in a police state",
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          "sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
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          "sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
          "word": "警察国家"
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        {
          "alt": "警察國家",
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          "lang": "Korean",
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          "sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
          "word": "경찰 국가"
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          "sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
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            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "policinė valstybė"
        },
        {
          "code": "lmo",
          "lang": "Lombard",
          "sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "stat de polizia"
        },
        {
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "policiska država",
          "sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
          "word": "полициска држава"
        },
        {
          "code": "ms",
          "lang": "Malay",
          "sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
          "word": "negara polis"
        },
        {
          "code": "no",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "politistat"
        },
        {
          "code": "nn",
          "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
          "sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "politistat"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "państwo policyjne"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "estado policial"
        },
        {
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "stat polițienesc"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "policéjskoje gosudárstvo",
          "sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "полице́йское госуда́рство"
        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
          "tags": [
            "Cyrillic",
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "полицијска држава"
        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
          "tags": [
            "Roman",
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "policijska država"
        },
        {
          "code": "sk",
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "policajný štát"
        },
        {
          "code": "sl",
          "lang": "Slovene",
          "sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "policȋjska držȃva"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "estado policial"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "polisstat"
        },
        {
          "code": "tl",
          "lang": "Tagalog",
          "sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
          "word": "estadong pulis"
        },
        {
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
          "word": "polis devleti"
        },
        {
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "policíjna deržáva",
          "sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "поліці́йна держа́ва"
        },
        {
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "policéjsʹka deržáva",
          "sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "поліце́йська держа́ва"
        },
        {
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
          "word": "nhà nước cảnh sát"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Carlsbad Decrees",
        "German revolutions of 1848–1849",
        "de:Demagogenverfolgung",
        "police state"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "police state"
}
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        "nocap": "1"
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      "name": "calque"
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      "word": "totalitarianism"
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        "Terms with Afrikaans translations",
        "Terms with Arabic translations",
        "Terms with Armenian translations",
        "Terms with Asturian translations",
        "Terms with Basque 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 Esperanto translations",
        "Terms with Estonian translations",
        "Terms with Finnish translations",
        "Terms with French translations",
        "Terms with Galician translations",
        "Terms with Georgian translations",
        "Terms with German translations",
        "Terms with Greek 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 Korean translations",
        "Terms with Latvian translations",
        "Terms with Lithuanian translations",
        "Terms with Lombard translations",
        "Terms with Macedonian translations",
        "Terms with Malay translations",
        "Terms with Mandarin translations",
        "Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations",
        "Terms with Norwegian 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 Tagalog translations",
        "Terms with Turkish translations",
        "Terms with Ukrainian translations",
        "Terms with Vietnamese translations",
        "en:Government",
        "en:Law enforcement"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1964 September 16, J. G. Sourwine, “Hearings Before the Subcommittee to Investigatee the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws of the Committee on the Judiciary United States Senate Eighty-Ninth Congress First Session”, in hearing (US Senate), volume 10, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, page 674:",
          "text": "You didn't know there is […] an active campaign, propaganda and otherwise, […] against all kinds of security procedures on the ground that they are all police state methods and all interfere with individual rights?",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1987, Alison Bechdel, “High Anxiety”, in Dykes to Watch Out For:",
          "text": "[Mo:] But out there in the real world they're bombing abortion clinics... holding Nazi and KKK rallies... trying to quarantine people who might have AIDS. They're making secret weapons deals to illegally fund so-called \"freedom fighters\" and calling it \"the Lord's work\"!! We're living in a Protestant police state […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, “Police State”, in Police State, performed by Tropidelic:",
          "text": "A gun up in our faces and they never gave a reason / The writing's on the wall, the politics are fake / Its clear to me we're livin' in a police state […] The prisons are for profit, its society's mistake / How macabre, we been living in a police state",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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          "repressive"
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        "(usually derogatory) A polity whose government exercises strict and repressive control of the people."
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      ]
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    {
      "code": "af",
      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ],
      "word": "polisiestaat"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "dawla būlīsiyya",
      "sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "دَوْلَة بُولِيسِيَّة"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "dawla šurṭiyya",
      "sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "دَوْلَة شُرْطِيَّة"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "ostikanakan petutʻyun",
      "sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
      "word": "ոստիկանական պետություն"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "ostikanapetutʻyun",
      "sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
      "word": "ոստիկանապետություն"
    },
    {
      "code": "ast",
      "lang": "Asturian",
      "sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "estáu policial"
    },
    {
      "code": "eu",
      "lang": "Basque",
      "sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
      "word": "polizia estatu"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "palicéjskaja dzjaržáva",
      "sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "паліцэ́йская дзяржа́ва"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "policéjska dǎržáva",
      "sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "полице́йска държа́ва"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "estat policia"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "jǐngchá guójiā",
      "sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
      "word": "警察國家 /警察国家"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "policejní stát"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "politistat"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "politiestaat"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
      "word": "polica ŝtato"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
      "word": "politseiriik"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
      "word": "poliisivaltio"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "État policier"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "estado policial"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "ṗoliciuri saxelmc̣ipo",
      "sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
      "word": "პოლიციური სახელმწიფო"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Polizeistaat"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "astynomikó krátos",
      "sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "αστυνομικό κράτος"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "astynomokratía",
      "sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "αστυνομοκρατία"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "pulis rājya",
      "sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "पुलिस राज्य"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
      "word": "rendőrállam"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "lögregluríki"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
      "word": "negara polisi"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "stato di polizia"
    },
    {
      "alt": "けいさつこっか",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "keisatsu kokka",
      "sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
      "word": "警察国家"
    },
    {
      "alt": "警察國家",
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "gyeongchal gukga",
      "sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
      "word": "경찰 국가"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "policijas valsts"
    },
    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "policinė valstybė"
    },
    {
      "code": "lmo",
      "lang": "Lombard",
      "sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "stat de polizia"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "policiska država",
      "sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
      "word": "полициска држава"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
      "word": "negara polis"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "politistat"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "politistat"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "państwo policyjne"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "estado policial"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "stat polițienesc"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "policéjskoje gosudárstvo",
      "sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "полице́йское госуда́рство"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "полицијска држава"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "policijska država"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "policajný štát"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "policȋjska držȃva"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "estado policial"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "polisstat"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
      "word": "estadong pulis"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
      "word": "polis devleti"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "policíjna deržáva",
      "sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "поліці́йна держа́ва"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "policéjsʹka deržáva",
      "sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "поліце́йська держа́ва"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "nation whose government controls people by police",
      "word": "nhà nước cảnh sát"
    }
  ],
  "word": "police state"
}

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