oligarchy
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- noun
- /ˈɑlɪˌɡɑrki/
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oligarquía
- Apartheid was an oligarchy, and no one wants that again.
- oligarchy and autocracy
- oligarchy and democracy
- old oligarchy
It was avoiding having any sort of debt or homage to the oligarchy of his party.
- It was avoiding having any sort of debt or homage to the oligarchy of his party.
- We mean this sort of institutional oligarchy in which decisions are made through process.
- So we have a ruling class that is at war with its people and that's an oligarchy.
- And in one discussion in Arque no, I was presenting the book and somebody said, but what you're saying there is not an elite, it is an oligarchy.
- It's just creating the oligarchy, making poor people poor.
- Is the lying American oligarchy and its enablers.
- And so then we have AOC and Bernie Sanders on a fight oligarchy tour.
- Yeah, it's anytime an oligarchy or seizes control of your country in big, big trouble.
- And it became sort of an, a mix of oligarchy and A and a criminal enterprise and, and chaotic.
- That's why Putin was came to power to, to like restore, restore order to the oligarchy.
- We can't we can't have an oligarchy in dictatorship and as a member of NATO, that's a misfit.
Examples
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Early texts were written by authors who were part of the ruling oligarchy.
Academic text (1992) -
The small country was ruled by an oligarchy of wealthy landowners who made decisions for the entire population.
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It's just creating the oligarchy, making poor people poor.
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But if that does happen, it should not fall in the hands of a few, an oligarchy or a group of people.
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The government of that oligarchy lasted just four months.
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The native oligarchy was in firm control at the outbreak of the war.
Academic text (1993) -
Sparta, on the other hand, was an oligarchy ruled by a few rich families.
Fiction book (2002) -
The parliamentary oligarchy of eighteenth-century Great Britain wasn't, after all, all that useful a model for America.
Academic text (1990) -
All of this only enriches the oligarchies of the world at the expense of average people.
Blog text (15) -
In the early political ideas of Pericles and Thucydides, Athenian democracy was ranked higher than Sparta's oligarchy, and certainly above tyranny.
Academic text (2017)
Antonyms
Compounds
- Literature
A small group of rich people who control the oil industry and government decisions
How Oligarchic
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Oligarchy comes from Greek parts oligo- meaning 'few' and -archy meaning 'rule', the same root as in monarch. So an oligarchy is a type of government where a small group of people hold the power.