noun. The office or tenure of a dictator.

noun. A state or government under dictatorial rule.

noun. Absolute or despotic control or power.

noun. The office or dignity of a dictator; the term of a dictator's office.

noun. Absolute authority; dogmatism.

noun. The office, or the term of office, of a dictator; hence, absolute power.

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. a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)

"And so the dictatorship of the proletariat becomes the _dictatorship of a single person_, a super-boss and industrial autocrat: We must learn to combine the stormy, energetic breaking of all restraint on the part of the toiling masses _with iron discipline during work, with absolute submission to the will of one person, the Soviet director, during work_. ["

dictatorship of the majority  

autarchy  autocracy  

police state  

absolutism  ascendancy  ascendency  autocracy  capitalism  

Caesarism  Stalinism  absolute monarchy  absolutism  aedileship