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minarchies

minarchies is the plural of minarchy.

Meaning of minarchy

Noun

minarchy (countable and uncountable, plural minarchies)

  1. Government with the least necessary power over its citizens.
    • This "minarchy," often dubbed the "nightwatchman State," reduced to police (and possibly army), is their historical ideal - and even in present days that of philosopher Nozick, for instance.2005, Serge-Christophe Kolm, Macrojustice: The Political Economy of Fairness, page 373

Questions about minarchies

What is minarchies the plural of?
Minarchies is the plural of minarchy.

Words near minarchies in the dictionary

  1. Minangs
  2. minaprine
  3. minar
  4. minarchic
  5. minarchical
  6. minarchies
  7. minarchism
  8. minarchisms
  9. minarchist
  10. minarchistic
  11. minarchists

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