oligarch

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  1. noun A member of a small governing faction.

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  • Will Duncan's Central Committee note the irony in the fact the children in the land of Stalin are now protesting America's brand of oligarch-inspired testing nonsense? —  Schools Matter
  • The old oligarch, the son of the oligarch, the daughter of the oligarch? —  Home
  • If you are under the impression that in order to charter a Mediterranean yacht you need to be either a Premiership footballer or a Russian oligarch, then you are only partially correct. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • Swed notes that the score is dedicated to the imprisoned Russian oil executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky and reports that "The composer called Khodorkovsky a great man and said Russia would be a better country had the oligarch, once Russia's wealthiest man, become its leader." —  Renewable Music
  • The composer called Khodorkovsky a great man and said Russia would be a better country had the oligarch, once —  Robert Amsterdam
 

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  1. Greek oligarkhēs : oligos, few + -arkhēs, -arch.

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  1. = French oligarque = Italian oligarco, from Greek ὀλιγάρχης, an oligarch, from ὀλίγος, few, + ἄρχειν, rule. Cf. oligarchy.
  2. Greek ὀλίγος, few, + ἀρχή, a beginning.
 

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/ˈɑlɪgɑrk/
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