3
strongman(noun, over, authoritarian, tyrant, dictator)
2
caesar
2
Hitler(noun, dictator)
2
absolute monarch
2
despotic
2
duce
2
pharaoh
2
slave driver(expression, idiom)
1
Big Brother(noun, government, over)
1
absolutist
1
all-powerful ruler
1
arrogator
1
autarch
1
bashaw
1
chief
1
commissar
1
crowned head
1
despots
1
driver
1
empress
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