Securocrat
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Any of the members of the police and security service that dominated the South African government in the 1980s.
- 2 An influential official of the security services of any country.
"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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From security + -crat (perhaps to rhyme with bureaucrat).
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