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beerocracy

beerocracy noun: those who control or profit from the brewing of beer.

Noun

beerocracy (uncountable)

  1. Those who control or profit from the brewing of beer.
    • Well, Irenaeus, I now come to what I was going to say when you brought in your panegyric on the beerocracy — a better thing, I grant you, than bureaucracy.1856 December, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 80, page 681

Origin of beerocracy

From beer + -ocracy.

Questions about beerocracy

What does beerocracy mean?
Beerocracy means those who control or profit from the brewing of beer.
What part of speech is beerocracy?
Beerocracy is a noun.

Words near beerocracy in the dictionary

  1. beermongers
  2. beernut
  3. beernuts
  4. beerock
  5. beerocks
  6. beerocracy
  7. beerocrat
  8. beerocrats
  9. beerophile
  10. beerophiles
  11. Beeroth

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