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Synonyms for oligarchy
ˈɒl ɪˌgɑr kioli·garchy
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Princeton's WordNet
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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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.
At the start of this year the parasitical oligarchy ambushed us but we and the people are responding.
It will tell people what I have been saying for a long time, is that this country is moving away from democracy to oligarchy; that billionaires are the people who are controlling our political life.
[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.
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.
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- حكم الأ قليةArabic
- oligarquiaCatalan, Valencian
- oligarchieCzech
- oligarki, fåmandsvældeDanish
- OligarchieGerman
- ολιγαρχίαGreek
- oligarĥioEsperanto
- oligarquíaSpanish
- harvainvalta, oligarkia, valtaeliittiFinnish
- oligarchieFrench
- olagarcachtIrish
- אוליגרכיהHebrew
- कुलीनतंत्रHindi
- oligarchiaHungarian
- օլիգարխիաArmenian
- oligarkiIndonesian
- oligarchiaItalian
- אוֹלִיגַרכְיָהHebrew
- 寡頭政治Japanese
- ოლიგარქიაGeorgian
- អប្បាធិបតេយ្យKhmer
- 과두 정치Korean
- oligarchiaLatin
- oligarchieDutch
- oligarchiaPolish
- oligarquiaPortuguese
- oligarhieRomanian
- олигархияRussian
- oligarkiSwedish
- คณาธิปไตยThai
- oligarşiTurkish
- đầu sỏVietnamese
- 寡头政治Chinese
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