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squaˈttocracy
[f. squat v. Cf. squatterarchy.]
The class of squatters as a body possessed of social and political importance.
1846C. P. Hodgson Reminisc. Austr. 118 Throughout the colony generally, English are the most numerous, then the Scotch, then the Irish, amongst the squattocracy. 1864Sat. Rev. 19 Nov. 616 The aristocratic element of a large landed proprietary, which is already designated by the ingenious colonial title of a squattocracy. 1886Mrs. C. Praed Miss Jacobsen I. i. 7 Female members of the squattocracy.
So ˈsquattocratic a., of or pertaining to the squattocracy.
1854Melbourne Morning Herald 18 Feb. 4/5 (Morris), Squattocratic Impudence. |