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What does anarchy mean?

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Noun
  1. (uncountable) The state of a society being without authorities or an authoritative governing body.
  2. (uncountable) Anarchism; the political theory that a community is best organized by the voluntary cooperation of individuals, rather than by a government, which is regarded as being coercive by nature.
  3. (countable) A chaotic and confusing absence of any form of political authority or government.
  4. Confusion in general; disorder.
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Meanwhile, anarchy reigns in the countryside as bandits, vowing to help the poor, raid and slaughter government convoys.
The idea that children are natural rebels who reject convention and prefer a state of anarchy is bunk.
To countenance such open advocacy and practice of aggression is to encourage the agents of anarchy.
But after three decades of lull, it has started relapsing into anarchy and violence.
Lahore station rears out of the surrounding anarchy like a liner out of the ocean.
Does it bother you in the least that many of your political allies are in favor of anarchy?

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