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-ocracy
the suffix -cracy, with the combining -o (orig. taken from the stem of the prec. element): as n., any form of government or domination to which a word in -ocracy can be applied. So -ocrat. See -cracy, -crat.
1831C. C. F. Greville Mem. (1874) II. xiii. 112 It has elicited a strong Conservative demonstration, and proved that out of the rabble-ocracy (for everything is in ocracy now) his power is anything but unlimited. 1834Tait's Mag. I. 180/1 The trade-ocracy and bureauocracy must now..prepare themselves to defer to the opinion of the men of hardened hands. 1894Speaker 14 July 40/2 [To] erect the great pillar of human brotherhood on the ruins of all the ‘ocracies’. 1894G. B. Shaw in Fortn. Rev. Apr. 489 Social-Democracy, like all other ‘-ocracies’, will have a great deal more trouble with its idle and worthless members than with its able ones. 1928― Intelligent Woman's Guide Socialism xliii. 166 If it be still necessary to call the rich an ocracy of any kind, they must be called a plutocracy. 1963F. W. Frey in L. W. Pye Communications & Political Devel. xvii. 299 Movement towards ‘democracy’..or whatever one's preferred..‘ocracy’ happens to be. |