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Oligarchy

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Noun

1. oligarchy

a political system governed by a few people

Example Sentences:
'one of his cardinal convictions was that Britain was not run as a democracy but as an oligarchy'
'the big cities were notoriously in the hands of the oligarchy of local businessmen'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Oligarchy

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noun plural -chies
1. 
government by a small group of people
2. 
a state or organization so governed
3. 
a small body of individuals ruling such a state
4. mainly US
a small clique of private citizens who exert a strong influence on government

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Oligarchy

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nounWord forms: plural ˈoliˌgarchies
1. 
a form of government in which the ruling power belongs to a few persons
2. 
a state governed in this way
3. 
the persons ruling such a state

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Oligarchy

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n. pl. ol·i·gar·chies
1.
a. Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
b. Those making up such a government.
2. A state governed by a few persons.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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