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单词 plutodemocracy
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plutodemocracyn.

Brit. /ˌpluːtə(ʊ)dᵻˈmɒkrəsi/, U.S. /ˌpludoʊdəˈmɑkrəsi/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: pluto- comb. form, democracy n.
Etymology: < pluto- comb. form + democracy n.
1. Rule or government by formal democratic processes but with only the wealthy having any real power.
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society > authority > rule or government > rule of any class or persons > [noun] > of rich people
timocracy1586
plutocracy1631
plutarchy1643
timarchy1643
chrysocracy1828
plousiocracy1839
chryso-aristocracy1858
plutogogy1894
plutodemocracy1895
1895 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. II. Pluto-democracy, government through the influence of money under the forms of a democracy.
1941 D. Wilson Germany's ‘New Order’ 24 German gibes at pluto-democracy.
1970 H. Arendt On Violence 72 A new system, which he [sc. Pareto] called ‘Pluto-democracy’—a mixed form of government, plutocracy being the bourgeois regime and democracy the regime of the workers.
1979 Afr. Stud. Rev. 22 100 Party politics leads not to popular democracy but to ‘plutodemocracy’.
2. A democratic state in which power lies in fact only with the wealthy.
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society > authority > rule or government > a or the state > [noun] > state ruled by the people > claiming or purporting to be
republic1604
pseudo-democracy1832
plutodemocracy1902
1902 19th Cent. & After July 119 If England be allowed to become a Plutodemocracy, then she has the tragic example of Venice to chasten and admonish her.
1948 W. S. Churchill Second World War I. xx. 287 The German Government ceased to define its foreign policy as anti-Bolshevism, and turned its abuse upon the ‘pluto-Democracies’.
1988 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 94 663 The classical elite theorists thought that egalitarianism..is one of the principal myths on which elites rely in mobilizing and controlling the mass publics of modern ‘plutodemocracies’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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