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    [Noun]  | "plu*toc*ra*cy" | \ plü-ˈtä-krə-sē \


    1: government by the wealthy

    2: a controlling class of the wealthy


    Origin: 1631 ;

     Greek ploutokratia, from ploutos wealth; akin to Greek plein to sail, float {mat|flow|};

    [Noun]  | "plutocrats" 


    1: a wealthy person;


      * e.g., " ... the 19th-century plutocrats who built their enormous summer cottages in Newport "





    [Noun]  | "plutocrat" 


    1: a wealthy person;


      * e.g., " ... the 19th-century plutocrats who built their enormous summer cottages in Newport "





     [ "plutocrat" ]

    1: Someone who exercises power through wealth.

      * e.g.,  ... Plutocrats have a larger control over the world then ever before. 


     [ "plutocrat" ]

    2: A government or state controlled by the wealthy.

     [ "plutocrat" ]

    1: Mitt Romney

      * e.g.,  ... A plutocrat, such as Mitt Romney, believes "there are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it -- that that's an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what. ... These are people who pay no income tax. ... My job is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives." 

     [ "Plutocrat" ]

    1: Another term for Republican

      * e.g.,  ... Plutocrat, politicians for sale. 

     [ "Plutocratic Pacifiers" ]

    1: Corrupt politicians, who take political campaign contributions in exchange for selling the collective representative authority of their constituents and their constituents' constitutional rights to empower a wealthy minority to oppress, exploit and enslave the democracy the elected representatives were charged to promote and defend.

      * e.g.,  ... Republicans and democrats have proven themselves to be plutocratic pacifiers with their unfounded war in Iraq, corporate bail outs and refusal to reform a corrupt financial system that destroyed the American Dream for millions of Americans. 

     [ "plutocratic throwback" ]

    1: A person who refuses to accept the 2006 International Astronomical Union guidelines for the definition of a planet, which excludes Pluto.

      * e.g.,  ... "Jordan is a plutocratic throwback; she's so old that she thinks there are actually nine planets in our solar system." 

     [ "plutocratic skunkworks" ]

    1: The treacherous efforts of the 1% to grow their wealth and power through secretive, unethical and immoral laws created by corporate lobbyists, groups of super rich individuals and corrupt politicians. super rich, 1%, corporations, elite, multinationals, multinational corporations, lobbyist, politicians, tech companies, Wall Street, the Bilderbergs, Committee on Foreign Relations, billionaires, millionaires, plutocrat

      * e.g.,  ... I think the one-percent use plutocratic skunkworks to manipulate the federal government and the stock market for their own benefit. 

     [ "GOP-God's Own Plutocrats" ]

    1: Originally, this name referred to the Republican Party's nickname of the Grand Old Party. However, in light of the Republican's love for God and billionaires, it should be God's Own Plutocrats. All of their policies seem to favor the extremely rich, religious and white.

      * e.g.,  ... The Republican Party is no longer the Grand Old Party of Lincoln, but rather is the GOP-God's Own Plutocrats 

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