Cottonocracy
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Cottonocracy is a noun meaning (US, historical) A government dominated by the cotton industry, as in the United States before the American Civil War.
Meaning
(US, historical) A government dominated by the cotton industry, as in the United States before the American Civil War.
Example Sentences
The Lancashire cottonocracy was still waiting for El Dorado, and was quite prepared to believe that the opium trade was delaying its arrival.
The whole school argue political or national economy as a party question: it is Cottonocracy versus Cornocracy — the nation is to be crucified between them.
Make a question between our nation and England about fifty desarters^([sic]), and if the ministers of the day only dared to talk of fighting, the members of all the manufactoren^([sic]) towns in England, the cottonocracy of Great Britain, would desert too!
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include plantocracy, corpocracy, dollarocracy, slaveocracy, corruptocracy, slavocracy.
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