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单词 millocracy
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millocracyn.

Brit. /mᵻˈlɒkrəsi/, U.S. /mɪˈlɑkrəsi/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mill n.1, -ocracy comb. form.
Etymology: < mill n.1 + -ocracy comb. form. Compare slightly earlier millocrat n.
Now historical (somewhat depreciative).
The rule of mill owners; the body of mill owners regarded as a dominant or ruling class (esp. in Victorian England).
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society > authority > rule or government > rule of any class or persons > ruling class or group > [noun] > of slave-, mill-, or land-owners
millocracy1833
slavocracy1840
landocracy1848
1833 Poor Man's Guardian 20 Apr. Many supposed friends of liberty aided the Whigs in their treachery, by uniting the monarchy, aristocracy, millocracy, and shopocracy against the insulted, all-sustaining democracy.
1838 Northern Star 14 Apr. 2/5 A shallow young fellow at the fag-end of the millocracy of the town.
1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present iii. i. 190 In hydra-wrestle, giant Millocracy’ so-called..wrestles and wrings.
1853 K. Marx in N.Y. Daily Tribune 8 Aug. 5/6 The aristocracy wanted to conquer it [sc. India], the moneyocracy to plunder it, and the millocracy to undersell it.
1871 W. Elder Questions of Day 289 The dominion has passed from the lords of blood to the lords of gold, as the aristocracy is dominated by the millocracy of England.
1956 G. S. Haight in ‘G. Eliot’ Lett. VI. 286 A small boarding school for girls..drawn largely from the millocracy, rich and profoundly ignorant.
1970 R. Blake Conservative Party i. 21 Why should not the landed aristocracy join hands with the socially dispossessed..against the northern ‘millocracy’?
1996 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 22 Jan. a9 In its indifference to all groups in society other than itself, the new U.S. overclass makes the Manchester millocracy of the 19th century look like a model of civic virtue.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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