释义 |
millocracy|mɪˈlɒkrəsɪ| [f. mill n.1 + -ocracy.] The rule of mill-owners; the body of mill-owners regarded as a dominant class.
1843Carlyle Past. & Pr. iii. i, In hydra-wrestle, giant ‘Millocracy’ so-called..wrestles and wrings. 1956G. S. Haight in Geo. Eliot Lett. VI. 286 A small boarding school for girls..drawn largely from the millocracy, rich and profoundly ignorant. 1970R. Blake Conservative Party i. 21 Why should not the landed aristocracy join hands with the socially dispossessed..against the northern ‘millocracy’? |