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PLUTOCRACY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does plutocracy mean?
• PLUTOCRACY (noun)
The noun PLUTOCRACY has 1 sense:
1. a political system governed by the wealthy people
Familiarity information: PLUTOCRACY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A political system governed by the wealthy people
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("plutocracy" is a kind of...):
form of government; political system (the members of a social organization who are in power)
Derivation:
plutocratic; plutocratical (of or relating to or characteristic of a plutocrat)
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