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Sep. 23, 2016
plutocracy\ploo-TOK-ruh-see\noun
1. the rule or power of wealth or of the wealthy.
2. a government or state in which the wealthy class rules.
QuotesTwo per cent of our people owned 60 per cent of all our wealth,
thus causing a condition of extreme plutocracy on the one hand and
extreme poverty on the other.
-- D. F. Garland, "The City Manager and the Baby," The Rotarian, March
1916
Origin of plutocracyPlutocracy finds its origins in the Greek words
ploûtos meaning "wealth" and krátosmeaning "rule, strength, might." It
entered English in the mid-1600s.More From Dictionary.comSubmit a
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