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Definition of Oligarchy
1. Noun. A political system governed by a few people. "The big cities were notoriously in the hands of the oligarchy of local businessmen"
Definition of Oligarchy
1. n. A form of government in which the supreme power is placed in the hands of a few persons; also, those who form the ruling few.
Definition of Oligarchy
1. Noun. A government run by only a few, often the wealthy. ¹
2. Noun. Those who make up an oligarchic government. ¹
3. Noun. A state ruled by such a government. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Oligarchy
1. [n -CHIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oligarchy
Literary usage of Oligarchy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Republic of Plato by Plato, Benjamin Jowett (1881)
"And this, speaking generally, is the way in which oligarchy is established. ...
This, then, will be the first great defect of oligarchy? Clearly. ..."
2. Greek Oligarchies, Their Character and Organisations by Leonard Whibley (1896)
"oligarchy in a special sense. I proceed to the more precise definition of the
... Aristotle recognises that oligarchy is distinguished from democracy by ..."
3. The Political Thought of Plato and Aristotle by Ernest Barker (1906)
"Adhering however to its partial interpretation, oligarchy makes wealth the standard
of distribution and the aim of action : it constitutes a State in which ..."
4. Greek Oligarchies, Their Character and Organisations by Leonard Whibley (1896)
"oligarchy in a special sense. I proceed to the more precise definition of the
... Aristotle recognises that oligarchy is distinguished from democracy by ..."
5. Japan: Aspects & Destines by W. Petrie Watson (1904)
"The Japanese oligarchy is, in fact, the necessary corollary or complement of an
Emperor ... There is here a great hiatus which only the oligarchy can fill. ..."
6. Greece: II. Grecian History to the Reign of Peisistratus at Athens by George Grote (1899)
"Under the " cold shade " of their oligarchy — even if we suppose the absence of
cruelty and rapacity, which would probably soon have become rife had their ..."
7. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas ( Hobbes (1843)
"... opinion they had that the oligarchy was not like to last, was it that most
evidently encouraged them : and thereupon they every one contended who should ..."
8. Republican Campaign Text Book for by Republican Congressional Committee (1882)
"The United States under the Forty-Sixth Congress an oligarchy. ... What is an
oligarchy ? Webster defines an oligarchy as " a form of government in which ..."
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