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mortocracies

mortocracies is the plural of mortocracy.

Meaning of mortocracy

Noun

mortocracy (countable and uncountable, plural mortocracies)

  1. (rare) Rule or government based on death in some way.
    • In the 1970s and 1980s El Salvador was ruled by what might best be described as a "mortocracy": government by death. Ruled by a small group of wealthy elite, the country was controlled by death squads.2000, John Jacob Nutter, The CIA's Black Ops, page 215

Questions about mortocracies

What is mortocracies the plural of?
Mortocracies is the plural of mortocracy.

Words near mortocracies in the dictionary

  1. mortmainer
  2. mortmainers
  3. mortmains
  4. mortmal
  5. morto
  6. mortocracies
  7. mortocracy
  8. Morton
  9. Morton and Hanthorpe
  10. Morton code
  11. Morton codes

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