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.
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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.
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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.
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Say your name is "Dave Liberal," and you're running for the Senate against shadily-funded plutocrat-favorite Jason Putz.
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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.
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Christopher Plummer is the family's smoothly expansive plutocrat.
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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
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