oligarchy

Words with a similar base: oligarchy

'oligarchy'

[oligarchy.n.01] as in: a political system governed by a few people

Examples:
one of his cardinal convictions was that Britain was not run as a democracy but as an oligarchy
the big cities were notoriously in the hands of the oligarchy of local businessmen

Origins

					oligarchy (English)
└── oligarchie (French)
    └── oligarchia (Latin)
        └── ὀλιγαρχία (Ancient Greek (to 1453))

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