Usually means: Rule by a few elites.
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  1. oligarchy: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. oligarchy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. oligarchy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. oligarchy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. oligarchy: Vocabulary.com
  6. Oligarchy, oligarchy: Wordnik
  7. oligarchy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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  9. oligarchy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. oligarchy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. oligarchy: Infoplease Dictionary
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  13. oligarchy: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Oligarchy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  16. oligarchy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  18. oligarchy: Grandiloquent Dictionary
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  1. oligarchy: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names
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  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
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  5. Oligarchy: Legal dictionary

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  1. oligarchy: Encyclopedia

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  1. oligarchy: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  A government run by and for only a few, often the aristocracy, the wealthy, or their friends and associates.
noun:  A state ruled by such a government.
noun:  Those who make up an oligarchic government.

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