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cleptocracy

cleptocracy is the alternative form of kleptocracy.

Meaning of kleptocracy

Noun

kleptocracy (plural kleptocracies)

  1. A corrupt and dishonest government or society characterised by theft and greed.
    • Quevedo, no ordinary person, is very amusing. His Visions of Hell in particular, though of a very different kind from Dante's, are more edifying. But our business at present is with his "History of Paul the Spanish Sharper, the Pattern of Rogues and Mirror of Vagabonds." We do not know that he...1819 December 29, Leigh Hunt, “THIEVES, ANCIENT AND MODERN”, in The Indicator, number 12, page 95

Forms of cleptocracy

pluralcleptocracies

Origin of cleptocracy

From clepto- + -cracy.

Questions about cleptocracy

What is cleptocracy the alternative form of?
Cleptocracy is the alternative form of kleptocracy.

Words near cleptocracy in the dictionary

  1. cleptobionts
  2. cleptobioses
  3. cleptobiosis
  4. cleptobiotic
  5. cleptocracies
  6. cleptocracy
  7. cleptohematophagy
  8. cleptomania
  9. cleptomaniac
  10. cleptomaniacs
  11. cleptoparasite

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