plutocracy
英 [plu?'t?kr?s?]
美[plu'tɑkr?si]
- n. 富豪統治，富豪統治集團
GRE
詞態變化
復數:?plutocracies;
中文詞源
plutocracy 財閥統治
pluto-,財富，-cracy,統治，詞源同democracy.
英文詞源
- plutocracy (n.)
- 1650s, from Greek ploutokratia "rule or power of the wealthy or of wealth," from ploutos "wealth" (see Pluto) + -kratia "rule" (see -cracy). Synonym plutarchy is slightly older (1640s). Pluto-democracy "plutocracy masquerading as democracy" is from 1895.
雙語例句
- 1. Financial, not moral, considerations will prevail in a plutocracy.
- 在富豪當政的國家里，人們見利忘義。
來自辭典例句
- 2. The most prolific of the debunkers of the plutocracy was Gustavus Myers.
- 揭發富豪統治集團的作家中,最多產的是古斯塔夫斯·邁爾斯.
來自辭典例句
- 3. If only millionaires can afford to run for office, we shall quickly become a plutocracy.
- 如果只有大富豪才負擔得起公職的競選, 我們將很快變成富豪政治.
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