American English pronunciation
How to pronounce oligarchy
IPA transcription: ['ɑlə,ɡɑɹki]
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Noun
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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”