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The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
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dic·ta·tor
/ ˈdikˌtātər/
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n.
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a ruler with total power over a country, typically one who has obtained power by force.
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a person who tells people what to do in an autocratic way or who determines behavior in a particular sphere:
the prewar era was a period whose apple-cheeked dictator was Doris Day.
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(in ancient Rome) a chief magistrate with absolute power, appointed in an emergency.
2.
a machine that records words spoken into it, used for personal or administrative purposes.
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The Editor Who Puts Dictators In Their Places
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 1/27/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...annual World's Worst Dictators issue last week...hotly awaited in the dictator community, sending...A. Name me a woman dictator. Q. Uhhhh . . . A...work harder at becoming dictators in the future. Q...If you did, which dictator would you least want...
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Giving in dictator games: regard for others or regard by others?
Magazine article from: Southern Economic Journal; 7/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...interest would call for the dictator to keep the entire amount...find that 70% of the dictators actually do not grab...receiver knowledge in a dictator game setting without...experimenter anonymity. After dictators have made their allocation...option is chosen, the dictator gets $9 and the ...
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DICTATORS IN THE DOCK.
Magazine article from: The American Prospect; 8/14/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...globe. HUNTING A DICTATOR As soon as Pinochet...horizon for other ex-dictators who might be brought...of candidates. Dictators fleeing coups...onetime Ugandan dictator Idi Amin absconded...and Ethiopian dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam...have funded the dictators' retirement. The...
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Dictators: Rocking and rollicking chutzpah
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 6/3/1991; ; 614 words
; THE DICTATORS At: The Channel, Saturday night The Dictators -- perhaps the most New York-identified rock band...era of political correctness. The only problem is the Dictators are very much a part-time band. Their unappreciated...
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DICTATORS IN NAME ONLY
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 2/21/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...long- running New York rock group the Dictators. "There are bands that sold a million...America and Europe. And get paid." The Dictators - fronted by machismo-fueled and bravado...that closed their first album, "The Dictators Go Girl Crazy!," they harmonized...
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With friends like these, who needs enemies? Aiding the world's worst dictators.(Essay)
Magazine article from: Independent Review; 6/22/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...the world's most brutal dictators. The reputation was well...election. Mugabe is not the only dictator to receive significant aid...consideration of the world's worst dictators indicates that world leaders...publicly condemning these dictators' gross violations of basic...
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Analysis: Psychology of dictators and their rises to power
Transcript from: Talk of the Nation (NPR); 4/7/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...1999 Analysis: Psychology of dictators and their rises to power Host...stories of the century's dictators and the countries they led...transaction, a partnership. A dictator really can't take that kind...important to understand that dictators do come to power often in...
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Country's Leader Revolves Into a Dictator.
News Wire article from: Africa News Service; 12/30/2008; 700+ words
; ...revolving into a failed and insecure dictator, analysts have said. Canadian based...of a discredited, insecure tin-pot dictator who prides himself on self-proclaimed...in branding Mutharika as an emerging dictator. "Malawi is sliding into a dictatorship...
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COLUMN: Bush's love of dictator troubling
News Wire article from: University Wire; 11/19/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...friendships with dictators, including those...Pakistan's military dictator Pervez Musharraf...manufacturers and Pakistani dictator friendships are...Pakistan's past dictators were equally repressive...of Bush's other dictator friends - Egypt...America gives their dictators massive ...
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Big Daddy: the dictator novel and the liberation of Latin America.(The Feast of the Goat)
Magazine article from: Reason; 8/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...el Macho," the fictional dictator of The Autumn of the Patriarch...power of the Latin American dictator novel has everything to do...enduring power of Latin American dictators. It is a non-fictional...chronicle about a Latin American dictator and as a seminal influence...
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dictator
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
dictator originally a Roman magistrate...office in 44 BC, Rome had 88 dictators. They were usually appointed...over the public finances. Dictators were held to strict account...Caesar's murder. Modern dictators have usually come to power...
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Dictator, The
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
Dictator, The (1904), a farce by Richard Harding Davis...Robert McWade Jr.). But the Consul's reign as dictator is short, for the General organizes another coup and makes himself dictator. Fearing for his life, the Consul assigns Travers...
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The Great Dictator
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
THE GREAT DICTATOR USA, 1940 Director: Charles Chaplin...Charles Chaplin ( Adenoid Hynkel, Dictator of Ptomania/A Jewish Barber ); Paulette...Hannah ); Jack Oakie ( Benzini Napaloni, Dictator of Bacteria ); Reginald Gardiner ( Schultz...
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Bercovici v. Chaplin: 1947
Book article from: Great American Trials
...preview" showing of The Great Dictator in Berlin. Replying to questionnaires...political reasons. The Great Dictator, he charged, was based on...he suggested a picture on dictators while visiting Chaplin's...he insisted, The Great Dictator, based on his script, appeared...
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Kongi's Harvest
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...Danlola, the ecstasy of Segi and Daodu who oppose the dictator. It is one of Soyinka's finest plays. The film...dictatorships — the sycophants surrounding the dictator, the dictator's megalomania, the ideological isms invoked to...
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