Minigarch
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Minigarch is a noun meaning (chiefly concerning the former Soviet Union) A petty oligarch, one with somewhat less money or power.
Meaning
(chiefly concerning the former Soviet Union) A petty oligarch, one with somewhat less money or power.
Example Sentences
One person familiar with the Moscow business world said of Povarenkin: “He’s a typical ‘minigarch’ guy who managed to cobble together a bunch of assets, deploying the typical Russian means of doing it.”
Financial and economic groups, which emerged as a result of the Yushchenko-inspired boom with an average growth rate in the gross national income of 9 percent since the year 2000, had created a new generation of “minigarchs.” They resented rampant corruption in tax administration and government and were angry at the plunder of the country by a narrow group of oligarchic billionaires backing the incumbent power elite and its candidate, Yanukovych.
Word Forms
- minigarchs
- mini-garch
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include questmonger, gremlin, gnome, tycoonocrat, vatnik, gopnik.
Related Dictionary Tools
Sources & Attribution
FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.