millionocracy · noun — A ruling class consisting of millionaires, or the very rich. It carries an Arena rating of 1223, earned across 115 head-to-head judged battles.
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Why “millionocracy” is a great word
MILLIONOCRACY — [Noun] A ruling class or government dominated by millionaires or the extremely wealthy. Formed within English by compounding the word 'million' and the combining form '-cracy' (from Greek -kratia, meaning 'rule' or 'power'), with the linking vowel '-o-'. First attested in 1860. Unlike "plutocracy," a broader term for rule by any wealthy class, or "aristocracy," which denotes hereditary rule by a titled nobility, millionocracy specifies governance by those possessing at least a million units of currency. It is the gleam of a gated community that functions as a private senate, the cold touch of a gold-plated pen signing legislation, and the velvet rope that parts for a bank balance rather than a bloodline—a democracy of digits where the only franchise that matters is financial.
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Etymology
From million + -o- + -cracy.
noun
- A ruling class consisting of millionaires, or the very rich.e.g.“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; […]” — 1845, Wade's London Review, volumes 1-3, page 360:
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