millionocracy
millionocracy noun: a ruling class consisting of millionaires, or the very rich.
Noun
millionocracy (plural millionocracies)
- A ruling class consisting of millionaires, or the very rich.
- We have already seen that if the candidate belong to the aristocracy or to the millionocracy his election is a matter of course, since he will pay his fees and give no further trouble; […]1845, Wade's London Review, volumes 1-3, page 360
- His confreres in the millionocracy laughed at such a slight and delicate distinction, and they were not wrong; but he, though he was not in the right, kept repeating his pet phrase, "I am a commercial man, and I do not want to get rich by robbery."1886, Nikolay Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky, A Vital Question: Or, What is to be Done?, page 399
Forms of millionocracy
| plural | millionocracies |
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Origin of millionocracy
From million + -o- + -cracy.
Questions about millionocracy
- What does millionocracy mean?
- Millionocracy means a ruling class consisting of millionaires, or the very rich.
- What part of speech is millionocracy?
- Millionocracy is a noun.
- What is the plural of millionocracy?
- The plural of millionocracy is millionocracies.
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