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party state en · NOUN

Etymology

Possibly calque of Chinese 黨國 /党国 (dǎngguó).

Meanings

1. A state in which power is held by a single political party.
   • I believe this genocide is ongoing, and that we are witnessing the systematic attempt to destroy Uyghurs by the Chinese party-state. 2021 January 19, Michael Pompeo, “Determination of the Secretary of State on Atrocities in Xinjiang”, in US State Department, archived from the original on 11 Apr 2021:
   • It was, to put it another way, quite astonishing to see how much, and to what at extent, the party-state depended on lies. 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 188:
   • The party state encourages companies to band together into industry clusters by giving them preferential access to contracts and stockmarket listings. 2012 January 21, “Theme and variations”, in The Economist:

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