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Oligarchical

Oligarchic \Ol`i*gar"chic\, Oligarchical \Ol`i*gar"chic*al\, a. Of or pertaining to oligarchy, or government by a few. ``Oligarchical exiles.''
--Jowett (Thucyd.).

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oligarchical

a. oligarchic

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oligarchical

adj. of or relating to or supporting or characteristic of an oligarchy [syn: oligarchic]

Usage examples of "oligarchical".

As a member of the British oligarchical Vickers armament manufacturing family, he had position and power.

There was simply no stopping the vast, lucrative trade which provided the British oligarchical feudal lords with untold billions, while leaving China with millions of opium addicts.

British oligarchical families of the Committee of 300 who were entrenched in Canton at the height of the opium trade left their descendants in position.

Business and Big Business is done by the oligarchical families of Europe and the United States Eastern Liberal Establishment.

What Carter and Reagan did was ensure that there was no further interference in the opium trade and they carried out the mandate given to them by the oligarchical families in Britain in this connection.

As we already know, all cults operating in the world today are the product of British intelligence acting for the oligarchical rulers.

British oligarchical circles and their cousins in the United States Government.

Order of the Garter, which is a prostituted oligarchical creation of the British royal family, which makes a mockery of what the Sovereign Order of St.

The element of oligarchical sentiment in these novels, however, has, I think, another and subtler aspect, an aspect more difficult to understand and more worth understanding.

Charenzo made more enemies, and even his friends began to be bored and alarmed by the endless charges of treason and oligarchical leanings.

The new oligarchical government, like their predecessors, had learnt nought from experience and were oppressing and exploiting the poor as ruthlessly as ever.

It would be a radical solution, sure to rub the wrong way against the cautious businessmen and merchants who dominated Erewhon's oligarchical society.