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/ˈɒlɪˌɡɑːk/ · noun
A member of an oligarchy; someone who is part of a small group that runs a country..
Millions of people were starving, while the oligarchs and their supporters were surfeiting on the surplus.
Economic disaster loomed, as the rotting remains of the Soviet economy were exposed to free-market reforms, which brought inflation and the sale of state-owned assets at low prices to a new class of ultra-rich businessmen called "oligarchs," who made America's robber barons of the late nineteenth century look like Puritan preachers.
But then, this is Ukraine. Since the country won its independence in the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Parliament has become dominated by the oligarchs - enormously wealthy industrial managers who have interests in steel, iron, coal, the media and soccer clubs.
Ukraine's oligarchs emerged in parallel to Russia's, who have been more closely studied, and they were quite similar.
The astronomical sales of the tome have proven once and for all that for teen girls and young women in Russia, the allure of marrying an oligarch is many times more powerful than acquiring fame or intellectual status.
Borisovich said he also wanted to highlight how a group of “enablers”, such as lawyers, accountants, and bankers, were helping oligarchs launder their “ill-gotten gains” by investing the cash in prime London mansions.
He will be an oligarch in the Russian mold: a rich man who used his wealth to gain political power and who would use political power to enrich himself once in office.
On the campaign trail, Zelenskiy pledged to clean up Ukraine’s oligarch-dominated ruling system.
Use oligarch when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Oligarch means A member of an oligarchy; someone who is part of a small group that runs a country..
Common synonyms include plutocrat, tycoonocrat.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Millions of people were starving, while the oligarchs and their supporters were surfeiting on the surplus.
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