Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who rules or sways a community or society by virtue of his wealth; a person possessing power or influence solely or mainly on account of his riches: a member of a plutocracy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One whose wealth gives him power or influence; one of the plutocracy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun someone who rules by virtue of his or her wealth.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who exercises power by virtue of wealth
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Examples
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Every movement of a United States plutocrat is recorded in the leading papers; every detail of his daughter's courtship and of her quarrels with her lover is described.
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And when, later on, Leverett Whyland became less the "good citizen" and more the "plutocrat" -- a course perhaps inevitable under certain circumstances -- he would sometimes smile over those unsuccessful advances and would ask himself to what extent the discouraging unfaith of our Abner might be responsible for his choice and his fall.
Under the Skylights Henry Blake Fuller 1893
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One witty Occuprint poster depicts greed as a statue of the Monopoly game's iconic plutocrat, which is being toppled by a crowd the way monuments to Stalin and Saddam Hussein came down in recent memory.
Washington Post: Breaking News, World, US, DC News & Analysis 2011
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The most likely GOP nominee, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, is a handsome version of that little plutocrat dude in a Monopoly game.
MJ Rosenberg: Predictions for 2012 MJ Rosenberg 2011
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Say your name is "Dave Liberal," and you're running for the Senate against shadily-funded plutocrat-favorite Jason Putz.
Ellis Weiner: Ads Infinitum: Countering the Citizens United Plague Ellis Weiner 2010
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Not a millionaire plutocrat pulling the strings behind the scenes.
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Hey Sen. Ron, we know you are a wealthy plutocrat now, but we remember when you were a man of the people.
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Crain finds Hoff's Mr. His, published under the name A. Redfield, to be a charming tale of a union-busting plutocrat, who presumably gets his comeuppance and may even learn a valuable lesson about life.
Archive 2009-01-01 2009
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Christopher Plummer is the family's smoothly expansive plutocrat.
'Tattoo': Raw, Rousing and Rather Redundant Joe Morgenstern 2011
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Say your name is "Dave Liberal," and you're running for the Senate against shadily-funded plutocrat-favorite Jason Putz.
Ellis Weiner: Ads Infinitum: Countering the Citizens United Plague Ellis Weiner 2010
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