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词汇 plutocrat
释义 plutocrat
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈpluː.tə.kræt/ us /ˈpluː.t̬ə.kræt/
someone who becomes powerful because they are rich: 富豪,财阀
The country has long been run by plutocrats.该国长期以来一直受财阀统治。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Powerful people & dictators
absolute authority
all-powerful
anti-establishment
authoritarian
autocrat
despot
dictator
dictatorial
establishment
figurehead
grey eminence
non-establishment
oligarch
oppressor
potentate
power broker
tyrant
voiceless
warlord
éminence grise

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plutocratic

Examples of plutocrat


plutocrat
Initially it was an economic institution designed to curb the power of plutocrats who were manipulating medicinal drug markets in their favor.
He is not only a plutocrat; he is an acrobat.
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They are here not in the interests of the farmers, but in the interests of the plutocrats, the reactionaries, and the landlords.
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However, the truth is that there is no phalanx of plutocrats waiting to be milked in order to distribute extra resources to the poor.
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Indeed, we have been told that he now has a private aeroplane, because he has been sponsored by some wealthy aeroplane-owning plutocrat.
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We are now in the age when plutocrats and commercials have got their sway.
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Not many years ago anybody who possessed a motor car of any kind was regarded as a millionaire plutocrat.
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I am not saying that we should turn ourselves into plutocrats.
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They are not all rich, prosperous, bloated plutocrats but people who are desperately trying to run businesses in a difficult climate.
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Many of these people who have received honours have no earthly right to them except that they were lucky enough to be plutocrats.
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It is only a very small number of the self-employed who are top-hatted and cigar smoking plutocrats.
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Why should overseas plutocrats take such an interest in our affairs to the tune of an estimated £7 million in 1991–92 alone?
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The banks take the people's credit and use it for the profit of the plutocrats who own them.
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Ordinary orchestral players are far from being plutocrats.
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The man on £33 a week is no plutocrat these days, yet he is expected to bear the brunt of the partial income redistribution which, in effect, the scheme brings about.
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