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Etymology
From AGr. polytonic|�λο��οκ�α�ία (ploutokratia) "rule of the wealthy" < polytonic|�λο��οκ�α�έ� (ploutokrate�) "I rule through wealth" < polytonic|�λοῦ�ο� (ploutos) "wealth" + polytonic|κ�α�έ� (krate�) "I rule" < polytonic|κ�ά�ο� (kratos) "power, might".

Pronunciation
italbrac|RP IPA|/plu��t�kr�si/
italbrac|US IPA|/plu��t��kr�si/
audio|en-us-plutocracy.ogg|Audio (US)

Noun
en-noun|plutocrac|ies

1. government|Government by the wealthy.
2. A controlling class of the wealthy.

Quotations
1933 � w:G. K. Chesterton|G. K. Chesterton, s:All I survey|All I Survey, Essay XXIII: On Industrialism''
:Modernity is not democracy; machinery is not democracy; the surrender of everything to trade and commerce is not democracy. Capitalism is not democracy; and is admittedly, by trend and savour, rather against democracy. Plutocracy by definition is not democracy. But all these modern things forced themselves into the world at about the time, or shortly after the time, when great idealists like Rousseau and Jefferson happened to have been thinking about the democratic ideal of democracy.

Translations
trans-top|government by the wealthy
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trans-top|a controlling class of the wealthy
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See also
fascism
monarchy
tyranny
aristocracy
oligarchy
democracy
ochlocracy

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• 2007-04-17 15:37 - EncycloPetey - /* Noun */ + quote

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