oligarchynoun [ C or U, + sing/pl verb ]
uk/ˈɒl.ɪ.ɡɑː.ki/us/ˈɑː.lɪ.ɡɑːr.ki/(government by) a small group of powerful people
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Systems of government
- a reign of terror idiom
- absolutism
- ancien régime
- anti-federalist
- apartheid
- Dem
- democracy
- democrat
- democratic
- democratize
- imperialism
- interregnum
- Jim Crow
- junta
- kleptocracy
- plutocracy
- plutocrat
- police state
- regime
- reign
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