squirearchy

/skwahyuhr-ahr-kee/US // ˈskwaɪər ɑr ki //UK // (ˈskwaɪəˌrɑːkɪ) //

乡镇政权,乡绅制度,乡镇企业,乡镇政府

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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plural squire·ar·chies.
- : the collective body of squires or landed gentry of a country.
- : the social, economic, and political class formed by the landed gentry.

A league was now formed by the bureaucracy, the orthodox clergy, the provincial squirearchy, and some of the proletariat.
Are the coronets of the nobility to be put up to sale like the acres of the squirearchy?
He sketched out a system by which this new squirearchy was to be dealt with,—how courted, flattered, and rewarded.
He had been made to understand clearly that it would be better that he should not enter in upon his squirearchy early in life.
A few years since some of the most strenuous opponents of railways were to be found among the squirearchy.