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mobocracy

[ mob-ok-ruh-see ]

noun

plural mobocracies.
  1. political control by a mob.
  2. the mob as a ruling class.


mobocracy

/ mɒˈbɒkrəsɪ; ˈmɒbəˌkræt /

noun

  1. rule or domination by a mob
  2. the mob that rules
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • mobocrat, noun
  • ˌDzˈپ, adjective
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • Dz·· [mob, -, uh, -krat], noun
  • Dzo·i Dzo·i· adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of mobocracy1

First recorded in 1745–55; mob 1 + -o- + -cracy
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The executive was quoted in the China Daily state publication in 2019 as fearing “mobocracy”.

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And then he moved to replace democracy with mobocracy, gathering a throng in Washington and inciting it to march to the Capitol and sack it.

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He told a grand jury that America risked sinking into a “mobocracy, the worst form of all government.”

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President Trump and his supporters have painted the statue-topplers as a mobocracy that must be reined in.

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Then a slight man, decked out in a tapered black suit, lace up loafers and a wide brim hat, stepped up as mobocracy crept in with the evening.

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