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squatocracy

squatocracy is the alternative form of squattocracy.

Meaning of squattocracy

Noun

squattocracy (usually uncountable, plural squattocracies)

  1. (Australia, historical, usually) Wealthy landowners (squatters) considered as a class.
    • Most of the Squattocracy are members of “The Club,” and therefore know who are the chief agreeable idlers (I mean gentlemen who are not oppressed with business) to whom to introduce a stranger.1862, Clara Aspinall, Three Years in Melbourne, 2010, Forgotten Books, page 235

Forms of squatocracy

pluralsquatocracies

Questions about squatocracy

What is squatocracy the alternative form of?
Squatocracy is the alternative form of squattocracy.

Words near squatocracy in the dictionary

  1. squatly
  2. squatment
  3. squatments
  4. squatness
  5. squatocracies
  6. squatocracy
  7. squatocratic
  8. squats
  9. squatt
  10. squattage
  11. squattages

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