Associations to the word «Oligarchy»

Wiktionary

OLIGARCHY, noun. A government run by only a few, often the wealthy.
OLIGARCHY, noun. Those who make up an oligarchic government.
OLIGARCHY, noun. A state ruled by such a government.

Dictionary definition

OLIGARCHY, noun. A political system governed by a few people; "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".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats