暴ぼう力りょく装そう置ち

noun

apparatus of violence; instrument of violence

Refers to state institutions authorized to use force, such as the military or police. Also used more broadly for any tool or system designed to inflict violence.

• 国こっ家かの暴ぼう力りょく装そう置ちとしての警けい察さつの役やく割わりが議ぎ論ろんされている。

  The role of the police as an apparatus of state violence is being debated.

• その組そ織しきは暴ぼう力りょく装そう置ちを使つかって反はん対たい派はを抑よく圧あつした。

  The organization used instruments of violence to suppress the opposition.