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cottonocracy

cottonocracy noun: a government dominated by the cotton industry, as in the United States before the American Civil War.

Noun

cottonocracy (plural not attested)

  1. (US, historical, no plural) A government dominated by the cotton industry, as in the United States before the American Civil War.
    • The whole school argue political or national economy as a party question: it is Cottonocracy versus Cornocracy — the nation is to be crucified between them.1840, Robert Owen, The New Moral World, volume 7, page 1027
    • Make a question between our nation and England about fifty desarters^([sic]), and if the ministers of the day only dared to talk of fighting, the members of all the manufactoren^([sic]) towns in England, the cottonocracy of Great Britain, would desert too!1855, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Nature and human nature, page 23

Origin of cottonocracy

From cotton + -o- + -cracy.

Words that rhyme with cottonocracy

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Questions about cottonocracy

What does cottonocracy mean?
Cottonocracy means a government dominated by the cotton industry, as in the United States before the American Civil War.
What part of speech is cottonocracy?
Cottonocracy is a noun.

Words near cottonocracy in the dictionary

  1. cottonlike
  2. cottonmouth
  3. cottonmouthed
  4. cottonmouths
  5. cottonness
  6. cottonocracy
  7. cottonocrat
  8. cottonocrats
  9. cottonoid
  10. cottonoids
  11. Cottonopolis

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