Usually means: Rule by mob or masses.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word ochlocracy:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. ochlocracy: Merriam-Webster
  2. ochlocracy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ochlocracy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ochlocracy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ochlocracy: Vocabulary.com
  6. ochlocracy: Wordnik
  7. ochlocracy: Wiktionary
  8. ochlocracy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. ochlocracy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. ochlocracy: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. ochlocracy: Dictionary.com
  12. ochlocracy: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Ochlocracy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Ochlocracy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. ochlocracy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. Ochlocracy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. ochlocracy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. ochlocracy: FreeDictionary.org
  19. ochlocracy: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. ochlocracy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. ochlocracy: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. ochlocracy: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (ochlocracy)

▸ noun:  Mob rule; government by the masses; mobocracy.

Similar:
pollarchy, androcracy, demagogracy, demagocracy, robocracy, mediacracy, moronocracy, merocracy, oligocracy, corruptocracy, more...

Adjectives:
unrestrained, vast, athenian, pure, mere, called, new
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Similar:
pollarchy, androcracy, demagogracy, demagocracy, robocracy, mediacracy, moronocracy, merocracy, oligocracy, corruptocracy, more...

Adjectives:
unrestrained, vast, athenian, pure, mere, called, new



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