plutocratn.
/ˈpluːtəkrat/, U.S. /ˈpludəˌkræt/ A member of a plutocracy; a person whose power derives from wealth.
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the mind > possession > wealth > [noun] > rich or wealthy person > rich and powerful person
leviathan1606
plutocrat1810
affluential1848
gold bug1872
plute1894
big-up1964
society > authority > rule or government > rule of any class or persons > ruling class or group > [noun] > of rich people > member of
plutocrat1810
1810 J. Robinson Savage xiii. 183 I beg your pardon, Frank: I had forgotten you were a ploutocrat.
1841 Times 23 Apr. 5/3 Conservatism..is not the creed of the aristocrat or the plutocrat.
1885 Law Times 79 190/1 The plutocrat..can buy as many ancestors and ancestral relics as he will.
1909 Times Lit. Suppl. 3 June 205/2 A plutocrat..who could quell the North Sea with oil-bunkered Dreadnoughts.
1958 J. K. Galbraith Affluent Society xii. 140 The nineteenth-century plutocrat who devoted his energies to expanding his already considerable income.
1995 Esquire Nov. 69/1 Turning thirty million acres of federal wetlands over to private developers..would have been applauded not by Teddy Roosevelt but by the plutocrats he tried to regulate.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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