Definition of dictatorship
1
: the office of dictator
2
: autocratic rule, control, or leadership
- people suffering under his dictatorship
3 a
: a form of government in which absolute power is concentrated in a dictator or a small clique
- Communism and dictatorship
b
: a government organization or group in which absolute power is so concentrated
- rising up against a military dictatorship
c
: a despotic state
- establishing a dictatorship
