rule
[zone: 1, ipm: 236.59]
Definitions
- the government of a country or control of a group of people by a particular person, group or system
Examples
- His rule was a despotism, but it was a despotism of intelligence and justice.
- A rule by the wealthy or powerful nation over a weaker country is the colonial rule.
- The nobles of Croatia were dissatisfied with female rule.
- Indirect rule is a system of government in which a central authority has power over a country or area, but the local government maintains some authority.
- Under German rule , except in a few communes, all instruction was in German and education was compulsory.
Collocations
- indirect [score: 10.73, freq: 232] (indirect rule)
- strategy [score: 10.35, freq: 23] (trading rule strategy)
- direct [score: 9.83, freq: 165] (direct rule)
- Dynasty [score: 9.64, freq: 5] (the Romanov Dynasty's rule)
- trading [score: 9.62, freq: 115] (trading rules)
- Catherine [score: 9.55, freq: 5] (Catherine's rule)
- British [score: 9.21, freq: 398] (British rule)
- resistance [score: 9.06, freq: 13] (resistance to the rule)
- succession [score: 8.99, freq: 37] (succession of rule)
- colonial [score: 8.9, freq: 119] (colonial rule)
- opposition [score: 8.84, freq: 18] (opposition to the rule)
- apply [score: 8.79, freq: 35] (apply the rule)
- Irish [score: 8.39, freq: 62] (Irish home rule)
- Roman [score: 7.95, freq: 103] (Roman rule)
- violate [score: 7.42, freq: 12] (violate rules)
- prescribe [score: 7.41, freq: 10] (rules prescribed by)
- Turkish [score: 7.23, freq: 28] (Turkish rule)
- absolute [score: 7.14, freq: 25] (absolute rule)
- Chinese [score: 7.1, freq: 29] (Chinese rule)
- despotic [score: 7.07, freq: 18] (despotic rule)
- consolidate [score: 7.05, freq: 8] (consolidating Islamic rule)
- Emperor [score: 7.05, freq: 6] (Emperor's rule)
- imperial [score: 7.04, freq: 40] (imperial rule)
- majority [score: 6.98, freq: 16] (majority rule)
- reimpose [score: 6.91, freq: 6] (reimpose direct rule)
- follow [score: 6.83, freq: 37] (follow the rules)
- hereditary [score: 6.81, freq: 18] (hereditary rule)
- impose [score: 6.8, freq: 11] (impose the rule)
- system [score: 5.98, freq: 14] (indirect rule system)
- Napoleon [score: 5.91, freq: 5] (Napoleon's rule)
Thesaurus
- law [score: 0.303, freq: 16874]
- system [score: 0.281, freq: 8829]
- authority [score: 0.281, freq: 11249]
- policy [score: 0.268, freq: 8979]
- government [score: 0.259, freq: 28006]
- principle [score: 0.25, freq: 6602]
- power [score: 0.241, freq: 28019]
- monarchy [score: 0.233, freq: 4904]
- constitution [score: 0.231, freq: 5269]
- control [score: 0.229, freq: 4508]
- administration [score: 0.224, freq: 4553]
- right [score: 0.222, freq: 11777]
- influence [score: 0.221, freq: 7000]
- order [score: 0.216, freq: 20371]
- form [score: 0.214, freq: 6757]
- institution [score: 0.208, freq: 2894]
- state [score: 0.207, freq: 21685]
- interest [score: 0.206, freq: 10335]
- ruler [score: 0.206, freq: 4465]
- condition [score: 0.206, freq: 7346]