Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

turnkey tyranny

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.50 in modern English

Syllables: turnkey -tyran-ny
IPA

27

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An institutional, legal, and technical infrastructure — particularly mass surveillance, data collection, and centralized state power — that is built up to a point where it is likely to be abused for authoritarian ends, or could be activated by any government so inclined with little additional effort.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Civil-liberties advocates warned that the expanding surveillance apparatus had created turnkey tyranny."
"And it will be turnkey tyranny."

Etymology

From turnkey + tyranny.

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does turnkey tyranny mean?: An institutional, legal, and technical infrastructure — particularly mass surveillance, data collection, and centralized state power — that is built up to a point where it is likely to be abused for authoritarian ends, or could be activated by any government so inclined with little additional effort.
Where does turnkey tyranny come from?: From turnkey + tyranny.

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