| 释义 |
arithˈmocracy nonce-wd.
[f. Gr. ἀριθµό-ς number + -κρατία rule: see -cracy.]
A form of government in which the power is vested in the simply numerical majority.
1850Kingsley Alt. Locke Pref. (1879) 116 A ‘democracy’ of mere numbers is no democracy, but a mere brute ‘arithmocracy.’ |