Plantocracy
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /plɑːnˈtɒkɹəsi/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Plantocracy is a noun meaning Government by plantation owners.
Meaning
Government by plantation owners.
More Meanings
- The group of plantation owners who have power in such a government.
Example Sentences
Too many, however, who might take an honourable stand, fear the petty spleen of the plantocracy; preferring the most disgusting adulation, to the blessing of him ready to perish.
Although remnants of the plantocracy retained positions of economic and political importance into the 1960s and represented the hardest core of Jamaican conservatism, its significance was historical rather than contemporary.
Word Forms
- plantocracies
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include plutocracy, aristocracy, landocracy, plutarchy, despotocracy, partocracy.
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