Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of a small governing faction.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A member of an oligarchy; one of a few holding political power.
- In botany, having a few centripetally developed xylem plates: said of some radial vascular cylinders.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A member of an oligarchy; one of the rulers in an oligarchical government.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
member of anoligarchy , someone who is part of asmall group that runs a country. - noun A very
rich person (especially in Russia). - noun A protoplanet formed during
oligarchic accretion .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun one of the rulers in an oligarchy
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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During the forum for investors, Hayden faced that simple question: They see that the Russian oligarch is the owner of the team.
Norman Oder: Green Cards for Sale? Atlantic Yards Backers Seek Chinese Investors Norman Oder 2010
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That he has done this, only in the end to pass into the perpetual slavery of the industrial oligarch, is something at which his whole past cries in protest.
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Could it be that the closest friend of [exiled anti-Putin Russian oligarch] Boris Berezovsky is working as an agent of Moscow?
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That he has done this, only in the end to pass into the perpetual slavery of the industrial oligarch, is something at which his whole past cries in protest.
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Kremlin, Moscow VLADIMIR PUTIN: You know, I dont really like the word oligarch used to describe big business representatives in Russia.
WN.com - Articles related to DTI favors zero tariffs on cement, wheat 2010
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President of Russia V. Putin The Kremlin, Moscow VLADIMIR PUTIN: You know, I dont really like the word oligarch used to describe big business representatives in Russia.
WN.com - Articles related to DTI favors zero tariffs on cement, wheat 2010
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President of Russia V. Putin The Kremlin, Moscow VLADIMIR PUTIN: You know, I dont really like the word oligarch used to describe big business representatives in Russia.
WN.com - Articles related to DTI favors zero tariffs on cement, wheat 2010
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ABC in its 1990s thinking is still not allowing embedding of video but you can see a nice simple 5 minute video on "the banking system" (they even included the word oligarch)
Financial Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha 2009
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ABC in its 1990s thinking is still not allowing embedding of video but you can see a nice simple 5 minute video on "the banking system" (they even included the word oligarch)
Financial Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha 2009
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Arsenal welcome an American billionaire to their board: Will he be enough to keep a certain Uzbek oligarch away?
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