Securocrat

Quick meaning: Securocrat is a noun meaning Any of the members of the police and security service that dominated the South African government in the 1980s.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. An influential official of the security services of any country.

Example Sentences

Washington and its partners need to work out how to talk to Xi's new cohort of technocrats, securocrats and ideologues.

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.

Word Forms

• securocrats

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