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Meanings of plutocracy in English
Society or system ruled and dominated by the small minority of the top wealthiest citizens.
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Usage of plutocracy in English
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Thailand:Thailand's 2006 military coup pitted plutocracy and hereditary monarchy against each other.
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Corruption, plutocracy, and kleptocracy will all be household names after this talk.
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The Moscow plutocracy of bald merchants and bejewelled fat wives had gone.
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In an elegant plutocracy, a jealous husband is regarded as a boor.
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He hated what he called the plutocracy, but no individual rich man.
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This Government is not and never shall be government by a plutocracy.
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Oligarchy and plutocracy are not necessarily incompatible, but they are uneasy bedfellows.
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If it isn't to be plutocracy to-day it has to be aristocracy.
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Several Kappas at the table next to me, presumably discussing the coming plutocracy.
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They will often learn by experience that the democracy has become a plutocracy.
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Conceivably it may have to face a severe conflict with a middle-class plutocracy.
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But this strange poetry of plutocracy prevails over people against their very senses.
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Public spirit in the masses was dead or sleeping; the Commonwealth was a plutocracy.
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In a word, the growth of the plutocracy became vigorous.
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Thus the descendants of the feudal aristocracy were pushed aside by the modern plutocracy.
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And plutocracy will be in its turn executed by equality.
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