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acreocracy en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /eɪkəˈɹɒkɹəsi/ (UK)

Etymology

From acre + -ocracy.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Important landowners, considered as a class.
    • The Acre-ocracy of England: A list of all owners of three thousand acres and upwards. 1876, John Bateman, (title)
    • This acreocracy, like all Welsh social groups, was deeply riven with profound internal divisions. 2005, Russell Davies, Hope and Heartbreak, page 93:
  2. (uncountable) The land owned by such people.
    • We'd been two years on our Pedernales acreocracy, not far from Fredericksburg, when our neighbor had two horses stolen in broad daylight. 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 13: