Oligarchy

noun
'ɑlə,ɡɑrki

Noun

  • a political system governed by a few people

    one of his cardinal convictions was that Britain was not run as a democracy but as an oligarchy

    the big cities were notoriously in the hands of the oligarchy of local businessmen

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