Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Government by the armed forces.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A military government; government by force of arms.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A military government; government by military chiefs and an army.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A military government.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun government by the military and an army

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Greek stratos, army; see ster- in Indo-European roots + –cracy.]

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Examples

  • The intolerant citizens have called for a nation-wide general strike to bring down the deep-rooted stratocracy in Burma, due to the junta's insistence of barring the Lady to participate in the country's political reform process.

    Burma Question - sill a matter of regional concern 2009

  • The intolerant citizens have called for a nation-wide general strike to bring down the deep-rooted stratocracy in Burma, due to the junta\'s insistence of barring the Lady to participate in the country\'s political reform process. '

    Burma Question - sill a matter of regional concern 2009

  • But in Burma, the political opposition as well as journalists and media personnel are under the strictest rules of the stratocracy.

    Burma seeks global support for press freedom 2009

  • Along the way he correctly spelled stratocracy, refractoriness, mendacious, and childrens.

    John Seery: NEWSFLASH: Al Gore Awarded MacArthur "Genius" Grant! 2008

  • But to effect such end, the Turks require the old stratocracy, which, bloody as it was, worked with far less misery than the charter and the new code.

    Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

  • It is in the perfection of the stratocracy that we must look for the key to the excesses of the autocrat.

    The Caesars Thomas De Quincey 1822

  • It was purely a government by the sword, or permanent _stratocracy_ having a movable head.

    The Caesars Thomas De Quincey 1822

  • The most intolerant citizens have called for a U.S. military invasion or an armed struggle to overthrow the deep-rooted stratocracy in Burma, due to the junta’s insistence on building a military-privileged country.

    Will civil strife recur in Burma? 2008

  • _stratocracy_ then disposing of the world, that within no very great succession of weeks that same victorious rebel, the Emperor Galba, at whose feet Nero had been self-immolated, was laid a murdered corpse in the same identical cell which had witnessed the lingering agonies of his unhappy victim.

    The Caesars Thomas De Quincey 1822

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