plutocratnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈpluː.tə.kræt/us/ˈpluː.t̬ə.kræt/someone who becomes powerful because they are rich:
The country has long been run by plutocrats.
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Powerful people & dictators
- a heavy hitter idiom
- authoritarian
- autocrat
- autocratic
- big beast
- despot
- dictator
- dictatorial
- establishment
- figurehead
- grey eminence
- heavy
- potentate
- power broker
- puissance
- puissant
- strongman
- voiceless
- warlord
- éminence grise
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plutocratic
adjective uk/ˌpluː.təˈkræt.ɪk/us/ˌpluː.toʊˈkræt̬.ɪk/