oligarchy
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
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- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 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
Types & categories
- political system hypernym
Related & opposite
- oligarchic derivation
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | oligarchic |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | political system |