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protected democracies

protected democracies is the plural of protected democracy.

Meaning of protected democracy

Noun

protected democracy (countable and uncountable, plural protected democracies)

  1. (euphemistic) An antisocialist government that allows suffrage but places sovereignty in the army.
    • Pinochet, the Times reported, said he is “a lover of liberty, a right to which all men are born.” But he had no confidence “in orthodox democracy. It was too easy to infiltrate and destroy.” (He knew of what he spoke.) So he favored “a protected democracy” with a strong political role for the...1986, Michael Parenti, chapter 10, in Inventing Reality: The Politics of the Mass Media, New York: St. Martin’s Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 181

Questions about protected democracies

What is protected democracies the plural of?
Protected democracies is the plural of protected democracy.

Words near protected democracies in the dictionary

  1. protected
  2. protected area
  3. protected areas
  4. protected cruiser
  5. protected cruisers
  6. protected democracies
  7. protected democracy
  8. protected membrane roof
  9. protected membrane roofs
  10. protected mode
  11. protected name

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