Synonyms for oligarchy
ˈɒl ɪˌgɑr kioli·garchy

Princeton's WordNet

1. oligarchynoun

   a political system governed by a few people

   "one of his cardinal convictions was that Britain was not run as a democracy but as an oligarchy"; "the big cities were notoriously in the hands of the oligarchy of local businessmen"

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1. thearchy

   they mean the same thing pretty much.

   Submitted by anonymous on November 17, 2019  

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1. List of paraphrases for "oligarchy":

   oligarch

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1. Candace Rondeaux:

   One tends to think that Putin is this diabolical man who controls all the things inside and outside of the Kremlin. That’s kind of true. He definitely has a lot of power over state agencies. He has a lot of power over business enterprises throughout the country and therefore the wealth of the country, but there’s something deeper here. Russia’s oligarchy, its mafia class and its security class have started to fuse to the point where you cannot untangle them from each other and they need each other.

2. Phil Trieb:

   [I]f we won’t choose to pay the price of liberty, then by default we shall suffer the cost of servitude -- whether it be the iron chains of a tyrannical oligarchy or the regulatory chains of unelected, faceless bureaucrats. When we witness our neighbors abused by tyrants, will we skulk away and hope we’re not next? Or will we stand by them and challenge -- as freedom-loving Americans -- the tyranny of lawless leaders.

3. Nicolas Maduro:

   At the start of this year the parasitical oligarchy ambushed us but we and the people are responding.

4. G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy:

   Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about.

5. Bernie Sanders:

   You are not looking at democracy, you are looking at oligarchy -- and we have got to change that, i do not exaggerate when I tell you that the foundations of American democracy are being undermined.