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plutocracy

/ploo-tok-ruh-see/US // pluˈtɒk rə si //UK // (pluːˈtɒkrəsɪ) //

财阀,财阀主义,财阀制度,财阀制

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural plu·toc·ra·cies.

    • : the rule or power of wealth or of the wealthy.
    • : a government or state in which the wealthy class rules.
    • : a class or group ruling, or exercising power or influence, by virtue of its wealth.

Examples

  • In the large cities the urbanized working class were slaves to a plutocracy.

  • American politics has ceased to function as a rising democracy and come to resemble an emerging plutocracy.

  • Instead, at this pace Smith brings the reader right around to the conflicts of Soviet old, but mutated thanks to added plutocracy.

  • The apologists for plutocracy are content this week to use anti-racism as their debating tool.

  • (p. 76) In the realm of politics, however, plutocracy can buy itself more substantial rewards.

  • Thus the descendants of the feudal aristocracy were pushed aside by the modern plutocracy.

  • Because the danger of plutocracy forced itself on the people.

  • The American plutocracy has developed upon a superstructure of Puritanism, and therefore, in America, hypocrisy is necessary.

  • She wants to make me the stepping-stone to social success; she sighs for the purple penetralia of the plutocracy.

  • Have we not seen the democratic form of government lend itself to ill-concealed plutocracy in Europe and America?