transcription, транскрипция: [ wɔ:(r)lɔ:(r)d ]
( warlords)
If you describe a leader of a country or organization as a warlord , you are critical of them because they have achieved power by behaving in an aggressive and violent way.
He had been a dictator and a warlord who had oppressed and degraded the people of the South.
...a drug warlord.
N-COUNT [ disapproval ]