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millocracy

millocracy noun: a rich class of people who own mills.

Noun

millocracy (plural millocracies)

  1. A rich class of people who own mills.
    • One of the favorite axioms of the millocracy is, "that capital owes no allegiance to soil," and, consequently, if not petted, will take wings and depart. The man was shrewd who asked what posterity had done for him; and the masses with equal shrewdness may ask the millocracy, "what has this capital...1847, William Dodd, The Laboring Classes of England

Forms of millocracy

pluralmillocracies

Origin of millocracy

From mill + -o- + -cracy.

Questions about millocracy

What does millocracy mean?
Millocracy means a rich class of people who own mills.
What part of speech is millocracy?
Millocracy is a noun.
What is the plural of millocracy?
The plural of millocracy is millocracies.

Words near millocracy in the dictionary

  1. Millmans
  2. millmen
  3. Millner
  4. Millners
  5. millocracies
  6. millocracy
  7. millocrat
  8. millocratic
  9. millocrats
  10. Millom
  11. Millom Without

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