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millionocracy en · NOUN

Etymology

From million + -o- + -cracy.

Meanings

1. (archaic) A ruling class consisting of millionaires, or the very rich.
   • We have already seen that if the candidate belong to the aristocracy or to the millionocracy his election is a matter of course, since he will pay his fees and give no further trouble; […] 1845, Wade's London Review, volumes 1-3, page 360:
   • His confreres in the millionocracy laughed at such a slight and delicate distinction, and they were not wrong; but he, though he was not in the right, kept repeating his pet phrase, "I am a commercial man, and I do not want to get rich by robbery." 1886, Nikolay Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky, A Vital Question: Or, What is to be Done?, page 399:

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