Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Political control by a mob.
- n. The mass of common people as the source of political control.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Government by the mob or populaeo; ochlocracy; governing power exercised or controlled by the disorderly classes. Compare ochlocracy.
- n. The mob; the populace; the common crowd; the uneducated or lawless class in a community.
Wiktionary
- n. Rule or control by the mob (or by the mass of ordinary people); a mob as a politically powerful force.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A condition in which the lower classes of a nation control public affairs without respect to law, precedents, or vested rights.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a political system in which a mob is the source of control; government by the masses
Etymologies
- mob + -o- + -cracy. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Keep dreaming and start paying the maximum rate with no deductions because soon enough if you have any form of income you by virtue of the mobocracy will be the rich guy.”
"I already paid the tax. Why do I have to pay it again just 'cause I died?"
“It was also believed that an excess of democracy, commonly referred to as mobocracy, was a contributing factor and the Canadian system was thus deliberately made less democratic with institutions such as the appointed Senate and powers of the British appointed Governor-General, who until the 1931 Statute of Westminster was an official of the United Kingdom government.”
“Many of the framers of the Constitution feared what they called "mobocracy," a pejorative euphemism for democracy.”
“The nationwide "Day Without Immigrants," in which a million or more invisible people in dozens of cities came out of the shadows to demand basic respect - sheer recognition, my God, as human beings - was anything but the "mobocracy" that Jim Gilchrist, one of the Minutemen founders, proclaimed to the media that it was.”
“An L.A. governed by the everyone-vote-on-everything "mobocracy" would be more dysfunctional than what we have now.”
“Some people speak as if the only alternative of autocracy was democracy, but the alternative maybe "mobocracy," which is ten times worse than democracy.”
“Let it be confessed that, despite Mr. Meredith's contempt for what he styled the "mobocracy," his first question concerned the meeting.”
“First and foremost, DerekE, this is not a "mobocracy" like Wikipedia, so it is never appropriate for an editor to change the additions made by an Administrator (exceptions being grammar and spelling corrections, etc.).”
“But the founders of the American republic were of course also almost all suspicious of "mobocracy," and the American state is carefully constructed to cripple direct democracy.”
“The latest factional violence follows warnings from some observers that the country is in danger of slipping into a "mobocracy".”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘mobocracy’.
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Forms of government
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big book gre
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Forms of Government
A handful of -ocracies.
adhocracy, androcracy, aristocracy, autocracy, cleptocracy, corpocracy, democracy, ethnocracy, gerontocracy, gynecocracy, gyneocracy, gynocracy and 31 more...
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GRE AWA
escalating, vehement, vehemence, hostility, paparazzi, regime, irrespective, scoop, exaggerated, overblown, unfetter, scrupulous and 272 more...
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Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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Verbalitis
syncretic
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nether's list
adroit, recrudescent, ecclesiastical, canaille, philologian, ignoble, dilettante, vicegerant, gilt, enfiladed, somnambulism, gamin and 215 more...
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Wikipedia's List of Government Types
anarchy, aristocracy, authoritarianism, autocracy, confederation, corporatocracy, consociationalism, demarchy, democracy, despotism, dictatorship, epistemocracy and 36 more...
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Crazy "-Cracy"
Words that end in the suffix "-cracy", which therefore means that the word represents a form of government.
kakistocracy, meritocracy, gynecocracy, hagiocracy, corporatocracy, timocracy, gerontocracy, ethnocracy, sociocracy, kritocracy, thalassocracy, ochlocracy and 64 more...
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Groupthink
Intra-Group dynamics, psychology of/within, and heard mentality.
acculturation, isopraxism, girouettism, steinzor effect, crowdsourcing, ethnocentric, syntality, conclamation, esprit de corps, ethnomania, entryism, herd crime and 78 more...
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