Definitions for oligarchy

oligarchy ol·i·gar·chy

Spelling: [ol-i-gahr-kee]
IPA: /ˈɒl ɪˌgɑr ki/

Oligarchy is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 402 anagrams from letters in oligarchy (acghilory).

Definitions for oligarchy

noun

  1. a form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique; government by the few.
  2. a state or organization so ruled.
  3. the persons or class so ruling.

Origin of oligarchy

1570-80; Medieval Latin oligarchia Greek oligarchía. See olig-, -archy

Examples for oligarchy

And this, speaking generally, is the way in which oligarchy is established.

Well, I said, and how does the change from oligarchy into democracy arise?

Thus much of the origin,—let us next consider the evils of oligarchy.

“Some say America is an oligarchy for the multinationals,” he said.

The second wave of Russian oligarchy is different from the first in another way, too.

Ought I not to begin by describing how the change from timocracy to oligarchy arises?

Tyranny springs from democracy much as democracy springs from oligarchy.

Certainly they would be better off under a reformist government, rather than the smothering absolutism of the oligarchy.

Such, then, is the form and such are the evils of oligarchy; and there may be many other evils.

Instead we have witnessed the emergence of the Age of oligarchy.

Word Value for oligarchy
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Words with friends

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