millionocracy
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From million + -o- + -cracy.
Noun
[edit]millionocracy (plural millionocracies)
- (archaic) A ruling class consisting of millionaires, or the very rich.
- 1845, Wade's London Review, volumes 1-3, page 360:
- 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; […]
- 1886, Nikolay Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky, A Vital Question: Or, What is to be Done?, page 399:
- His confreres in the millionocracy laughed at such a slight and delicate distinction, and they were not wrong; but he, though he was not in the right, kept repeating his pet phrase, "I am a commercial man, and I do not want to get rich by robbery."