securocracy
English
editEtymology
editsecurity + -cracy (perhaps to rhyme with bureaucracy.
Noun
editsecurocracy (countable and uncountable, plural securocracies)
- (uncountable) The police and security service that dominated the South African government in the 1980s.
- (countable) Any of the powerful security services of certain other governments in countries throughout the world.