| 词汇 | oligarchy |
| 释义 | oligarchy noun[ C or U ] politics specializeduk /ˈɒl.ɪ.ɡɑː.ki/ us /ˈɑː.lɪ.ɡɑːr.ki/ [ U ] government by a small group of very powerful people: 寡头统治（的政府）;寡头统治集团 A lot of people in the country were seeing the dangers of oligarchy. The country had to decide whether it wanted to continue on its path of transition or to follow the path of the rule of oligarchy. [ C, + sing/pl verb ] a small group of very powerful people that controls a government or society: The powerful socio-economic oligarchy tried to preserve its privileged status. The country is run by a self-selecting oligarchy with little regard for the rules of law and natural justice. [ C ] a country with a government that is an oligarchy: He denied that the country had become an oligarchy. Systems of government absolutism advanced capitalism ancien régime anti-apartheid anti-communism democrat democratic democratically democratization democratize junta kakistocracy kleptocracy kleptocratic majority rule plutocratic police state post-apartheid pre-fascist pure democracy oligarchy | American Dictionaryoligarchy noun[ C ] us/ˈɑl·ɪˌɡɑr·ki, ˈoʊ·lɪ-/ world history a government in which power is held by a small group of people oligarchy | Business Englisholigarchy noun GOVERNMENT, ECONOMICSuk /ˈɒlɪɡɑːki/uspluraloligarchies [ U ] the fact of a country being ruled or controlled by a small group of powerful people: The real difference between oligarchy and democracy is wealth. [ C ] a country or industry that is controlled by a small group of powerful people, or these people considered as a group: The electricity industry has moved from being a state monopoly to being a de facto oligarchy. Examples of oligarchyoligarchy Socially, the marriage alliances of the oligarchy consolidated it as a homogenous, but peculiar group, distinct from both aristocracy and bourgeoisie. Alternatively, a smaller subset of the citizens may be decisive, as in the case of an oligarchy or personalistic regime. The persistent interweaving of ancien r'gime oligarchies and the institutions of diplomacy in the end shared the fate e of a decadent regime. In this central period, the oligarchy was composed mainly of middleranking bureaucrats and servants of the king. Only the ballots would be burned without being counted, and candidates would be selected by the oligarchy using its traditional undemocratic methods. This is a social power born of political devolution, and it must have made oligarchy more acceptable. He lost the support of the core of the settler oligarchy but was unable to build a new political base. The quality of the existing laws meant that the most important goal of any opponent of oligarchy was to restore their sovereignty. The most distinct feature of this new oligarchy was its profound and multiple links to the crown. The main problems reviewed here are the openness of this oligarchy and its nobiliary character. Instead, the early colonial communities became fragmented, with oligarchies and tyrannies becoming the successful state forms. Working the system, the society and each other in somewhat different ways, they emerged as part of the oligarchy their activity sustained and strengthened. By the midseventeenth century, the process of fusion of the new oligarchy was complete. On the contrary, the oligarchy had hoisted itself up into the ranks of titled nobility. Because of the added complexity, slightly broader versions of oligarchy rule and conjunctive and even/odd decision rules are needed. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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