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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to or characteristic of a plutocracy or a plutocrat: as, a plutocratic government; plutocratic ideas.

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to plutocracy.

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  • adjective of, relating to, or being a plutocracy

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  • adjective of or relating to or characteristic of a plutocrat

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Examples

  • Susan had been my friend, as had her brother Perry, and Lucia, Perry's wife: they made no secret of the fact that they deplored in me what they were pleased to call plutocratic obsessions, nor had their disapproval always been confined to badinage.

    A Far Country — Volume 2 Winston Churchill 1909

  • Susan had been my friend, as had her brother Perry, and Lucia, Perry's wife: they made no secret of the fact that they deplored in me what they were pleased to call plutocratic obsessions, nor had their disapproval always been confined to badinage.

    A Far Country — Complete Winston Churchill 1909

  • Susan had been my friend, as had her brother Perry, and Lucia, Perry's wife: they made no secret of the fact that they deplored in me what they were pleased to call plutocratic obsessions, nor had their disapproval always been confined to badinage.

    Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909

  • With his Government job as a stepping-stone he has sprung into what he used to call plutocratic society in

    The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig; a Novel David Graham Phillips 1889

  • Overall, Whitman's economic policy is a kind of plutocratic Bolshevism, in which she, Carly Fiorina, the Koch Brothers, the oil companies, and other wealthy elites act as a kind of revolutionary vanguard determined to seize power in Sacramento and in Washington DC in order to give all power to the plutocracy.

    Whitman's Economic Plan: All Power to the Plutocrats 2010

  • Or will it evolve into a kind of plutocratic and reactionary corporate state like South Korea once was (but without the industry or the work ethic)?

    What's Wrong with Russia 2007

  • But to be clear, since Karabell really isn't, those long-form, economically minded features he's extolling all ran in the pages of the more plutocratic and business-focused Fortune, not the mass-market, general-interest-focused Time.

    Yvette Kantrow: Child's Play Yvette Kantrow 2011

  • But to be clear, since Karabell really isn't, those long-form, economically minded features he's extolling all ran in the pages of the more plutocratic and business-focused Fortune, not the mass-market, general-interest-focused Time.

    Yvette Kantrow: Child's Play Yvette Kantrow 2011

  • But to be clear, since Karabell really isn't, those long-form, economically minded features he's extolling all ran in the pages of the more plutocratic and business-focused Fortune, not the mass-market, general-interest-focused Time.

    Yvette Kantrow: Child's Play Yvette Kantrow 2011

  • But to be clear, since Karabell really isn't, those long-form, economically minded features he's extolling all ran in the pages of the more plutocratic and business-focused Fortune, not the mass-market, general-interest-focused Time.

    Yvette Kantrow: Child's Play Yvette Kantrow 2011

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