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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to or of the nature of oligarchy or government by a few; administering an oligarchy; administered as an oligarchy or by oligarchs; constituting an oligarchy.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to oligarchy, or government by a few.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to oligarchy.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective of or relating to or supporting or characteristic of an oligarchy

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