n. A member of an oligarchy, someone who is part of a small group that runs a country.
n. A very rich person (especially in Russia).
n. A protoplanet formed during oligarchic accretion.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. A member of an oligarchy; one of the rulers in an oligarchical government.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. A member of an oligarchy; one of a few holding political power.
In botany, having a few centripetally developed xylem plates: said of some radial vascular cylinders.
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n. one of the rulers in an oligarchy
Word Usage
"That he has done this, only in the end to pass into the perpetual slavery of the industrial oligarch, is something at which his whole past cries in protest."