millionocracy

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English

Etymology

From million +‎ -o- +‎ -cracy.

Noun

millionocracy (plural millionocracies)

  1. (archaic) A ruling class consisting of millionaires, or the very rich.
    • 1845, Wade's London Review, volumes 1-3, page 360:
      We have already seen that if the candidate belong to the aristocracy or to the millionocracy his election is a matter of course, since he will pay his fees and give no further trouble; []
    • 1886, Nikolay Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky, A Vital Question: Or, What is to be Done?, page 399:
      His confreres in the millionocracy laughed at such a slight and delicate distinction, and they were not wrong; but he, though he was not in the right, kept repeating his pet phrase, "I am a commercial man, and I do not want to get rich by robbery."