Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

securocrat

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: se-curo-crat
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of the members of the police and security service that dominated the South African government in the 1980s.

noun

An influential official of the security services of any country.

Example Sentences

"I am a securocrat, it’s people like me, in the security services, people with a narrow responsibility for counter-terrorism. It is better for that to be defined by wider society and not securocrats."
"Washington and its partners need to work out how to talk to Xi's new cohort of technocrats, securocrats and ideologues."

Etymology

From security + -crat (perhaps to rhyme with bureaucrat).

Word Breakdown

Suffix: security

Inflected Forms

securocrats (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

securocracy silovik

Questions

What does securocrat mean?: Any of the members of the police and security service that dominated the South African government in the 1980s.
Where does securocrat come from?: From security + -crat (perhaps to rhyme with bureaucrat).

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