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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An element in some words of Greek origin, meaning ‘government,’ ‘rule,’ as in aristocracy, democracy, theocracy, etc.: also used as an English formative with the preceding vowel -o-, as in mobocracy, or without it, as in bureaucracy (French bureaucratie).

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