plutodemocratn.
/ˌpluːtə(ʊ)ˈdɛməkrat/, U.S. /ˌpludoʊˈdɛməˌkræt/ Now rare.
An adherent or advocate of plutodemocracy; a member of the ruling class in a plutodemocracy.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > principles of or attachment to types of government > [noun] > adherents of other principles of government
aristocratical1651
imperialist1800
centralist1826
coercionist1841
Caesarean1869
feudalist1870
Caesarist1875
gynecocrat1893
patriarchalist1923
technocrat1932
presidentialist1935
plutodemocrat1939
psephocrat1966
1939 Monessen (Pa.) Daily Independent 10 Apr. 8/7 The search of the American pluto-democrats for money and blood had another motive.
1940 Economist 24 Feb. 328/2 German propagandists are making steady use of..‘Britain the pluto-democrat, living in luxury on the wealth extorted from 60 million native serfs’.
1953 J. Lukacs Great Powers & E. Europe 109 The radical nationalist press in Hungary was whipping up hatred and scorn for ‘reactionaries’ in Austria and ‘plutodemocrats’ of Paris, London, and Prague.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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