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plutocrat|ˈpluːtəkræt|
[f. prec., after aristocrat, democrat, etc.]
A member of a plutocracy; a person possessing or exercising power or influence over others in virtue of his wealth.
1850Kingsley Alt. Locke xli, When they, the tyrants of the earth,..the plutocrats, the bureaucrats,..are crying to the rocks to hide them. 1880Spectator 3 Jan. 10 Aristocrats have a great place and plutocrats a great place in our society. 1885Law Times LXXIX. 190/1 The plutocrat..can buy as many ancestors and ancestral relics as he will.
So plutocratic |pluːtəʊˈkrætɪk| a., of or pertaining to plutocrats; characterized by plutocracy.
1866Sat. Rev. 21 Apr. 480/1 The Oriental empires and African kingdoms or republics (if that term can be applied to the timocratic or perhaps ploutocratic Carthage). 1883Fortn. Rev. June 769 The plutocratic elements..are, in an increasing degree, becoming detached from Liberalism. 1905Outlook 11 Nov. 650/1 In Ohio and New Jersey..democracy had been supplanted by a plutocratic despotism. |