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Big Brother Definition


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Big Brother
noun
    1. An all-powerful government or organization, etc, or its leader, keeping complete control over, and a continual watch on, its citizens.
Etymology: 1950s: the name of the remote and tyrannical leader of Eurasia in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (published 1949).



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