Plutocracy

Quick meaning: Plutocracy is a noun meaning Government by the wealthy.

Meaning

Government by the wealthy.

More Meanings

1. A controlling class of the wealthy.

Example Sentences

Plutocracy, which is virtually supreme to-day, is to be no less condemned ; for it is not only not just, bit is nearly as detrimental to the race at large as absolute socialism would be, if adopted […]

Her piece painted him as an enigmatic Jay Gatsby type, a boy from a middle-class family in Brooklyn who had scaled the rungs of the plutocracy, though no one could quite figure out how he made his money.

The sea, most inhuman of elements, met in perfect friendship here with the soft and pleasure-loving side of man; and the mixed architecture of a bygone plutocracy reconciled me to the experiments of today.

There, indeed, he must consent to be the puppet and plaything of plutocracy enthroned on machinery, to have his ears assaulted by every variety of beastly sound that the ingenuity of modern civilization can devise, and his peace of mind shattered by the continual necessity under which he finds himself of performing bodily convolutions that would do credit to a professional gymnast.

Word Forms

• plutocracies

Synonyms for plutocracy

Depending on context, synonyms include argentocracy, tycoonocracy.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include plutarchy, dollarocracy, plutodemocracy, plantocracy, moneyocracy, oligocracy.

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