0 a system of government in which the richest people in a country rule or have power:
It's time we put an end to plutocracy.
1 the richest people in a country who have power in it
Before the week after next —though not if we can help it—he will he guided by a sort of neo-plutocracy.
I cannot help feeling that a meritocracy is a much more dangerous thing than a plutocracy.
A plutocracy has a certain fluidity, where it is possible for people to move from one class to another, which a meritocracy does not have.
Then the plutocracy and the rulers will make common cause and attack you.
I would say that we merit the title of a plutocracy if we think that everything can be righted by money.
However, it is not right that there should be no limit whatever on plutocracy in the pursuit of votes.
Would it not be a plutocracy?
The real argument is about those children who, given the economic forces involved, will want to go out into the market to earn money and join the happy teenage plutocracy.
