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oligarchical

oligarchical adjective: oligarchic.

Adjective

oligarchical

  1. Oligarchic.
    • Yes, please tell me how Shillary is the nicest corporate oligarchical servant, and how she will lovingly sell out the people who voted for her to her banker masters, with a twinkle in her fellating eye.2016 February 13, Gene Lyons, anonymous quotee, “Understanding the 'Bernie Bros'”, in The Daily Journal, volume 83, number 37, page A11

Origin of oligarchical

From Ancient Greek ὀλιγαρχικός (oligarkhikós) + -al. By surface analysis, oligarch + -ical.

Questions about oligarchical

What does oligarchical mean?
Oligarchical means oligarchic.
What part of speech is oligarchical?
Oligarchical is an adjective.

Words near oligarchical in the dictionary

  1. oligarch
  2. oligarchal
  3. oligarchic
  4. oligarchic accretion
  5. oligarchic accretions
  6. oligarchical
  7. oligarchically
  8. oligarchies
  9. oligarchise
  10. oligarchised
  11. oligarchises

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