noun

• A political system in which power is regarded as being invested in the people.

  ‘Communist power was collapsing in 1989 in the people's democracies of eastern and central Europe.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘The other day someone told me the difference between a democracy and a people's democracy.’
  • ‘The party's mission was to dismantle the colonial state and build a new social order, namely, a revolutionary people's democracy.’
  • ‘Finally, there should not be any barriers in a people's democracy.’
  • ‘He once cracked that the difference between democracy and people's democracy was the difference between a jacket and a straitjacket.’