securocrat

English

Etymology

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

Noun

securocrat (plural securocrats)

  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.

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