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US
/ˈpɫutəˌkɹæt/
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[ UK /plˈuːtəkɹˌæt/ ]
[ UK /plˈuːtəkɹˌæt/ ]
NOUN
- someone who exercises power by virtue of wealth
How To Use plutocrat In A Sentence
- I'm not sure what Laurie from Manly Dorm might be referring to as hate mongering (although I see that talking about secession is divisive), but I'd like to point out it's not hateful to say the Bush administration is antidemocratic, plutocratic and militarily adventuristic. American Coastopia!
- I was a conscienceless exploiter of men, a ruiner of families, a disgusting plutocrat who cared nothing for anyone but myself. The envelopes
- Yes, you have no choice but to marvel at the rather beautiful new $2 billion house of the Ambani family, a vast vertical hamlet for plutocrats with a design that vaguely recalls a snazzy Bang and Olufsen hi-fi stack. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
- If he may be capitalized (and surely he was rich enough to be), he might be described as hesitating whether to be a Plutocrat or a Good Citizen; perhaps he was hoping to be both. Under the Skylights
- Monsieur," replied the little barber, "a plutocrat knows too well that if he mixes in that 'galere' there 's not a dog in the streets more lost than he. Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works
- He says players tend to be rugged countryfolk not the crop-carrying plutocrats that soccer buffs are making them out to be. In Soccer-Mad Argentina, the National Sport Is a Lame Duck
- Van Dyck's portraits helped to ennoble many of the plutocrats. Notice of Arrival
- Here corrupt officials - and the plutocrats they enriched through questionable business practices - are making little effort to hide their ill-gotten gains, but actually flaunt them.
- And in feudal states, plutocrats with the greatest wealth owned the apparatus of governance and held absolute control over the lives of average people.
- His unamused plutocratic patrons had it painted out.