plutocracy

noun

Definition of plutocracynext
as in carriage trade

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Recent Examples of plutocracy The turn toward market liberalization around 1980 unleashed a second wave of plutocracy. — Daniel Waldenstrom, Foreign Affairs, 19 May 2025 American democracy has been hijacked by a one-man plutocracy. — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 10 Feb. 2025 The problem with plutocracy is that billionaires are typically removed from the struggles of working- and middle-class citizens, ordinary folks who share neither the goals nor system of values of the ultrawealthy. — Mordechai Gordon, Hartford Courant, 25 Dec. 2024 The potent and volatile combination of high capital and popular radicalism, plutocracy and populism, characteristic of the American Right is a heritage of the global political and economic turmoil of the 1930s. — Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 16 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for plutocracy
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  1. carriage trade
  2. society
  3. aristocracy
  4. glitterati
  5. beautiful people
  6. jet set
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  • Both industrialized what had previously been cottage industries—in Ford’s case, the artisanal carriage trade; in Seabrook’s, market gardening.
    — John Seabrook June 11, Literary Hub, 11 June 2025
  • Once the sale of the North Avenue Market complex was official a few weeks ago, a new arts partnership began envisioning a future for this 1928 landmark where Baltimore’s carriage trade once did their food shopping.
    — Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 23 Mar. 2024
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  • Persistent heatwaves are not only driving up the cost of keeping society running and disrupting companies' production and operations, but are also putting pressure on European economic growth.
    — , CNBC, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Bella DePaulo, a former University of Virginia professor who has authored books on single living, said society has changed since the regulation was established, with more people getting married later or not marrying at all.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2026
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  • The latter category, anticipating biomimicry, is well represented by the automata that captivated the aristocracy in the following century.
    — Jonathon Keats, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
  • At last, Jones also thought, there was a chance to spotlight the dynamic between North Wales‘ working-class community and its aristocracy on the big screen, a corner of Britain’s social history that has long been sidelined.
    — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 29 June 2026
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  • Unlike Portofino and Capri, Sestri didn’t become a glitterati haven, although Avatar star Zoe Saldana vacationed here several years ago, and Casey Affleck and Matt Dillon have turned up for the town’s annual film festival.
    — Catherine Sabino, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
  • Both Margaret and Snowdon have since passed, but their former country home still holds fascinating stories from their time as members of the mid-century glitterati.
    — Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 15 July 2026
Definition of glitterati
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  • After all, these rich, beautiful people couldn’t possibly see past Dee’s uncontrollable urge to panic-gag and Charlie’s uncontrollable desire to shove grotesque amounts of cheese in his mouth, right?
    — Dennis Perkins, Entertainment Weekly, 28 July 2026
  • The characters are thin and the plot often ludicrous, but the sight of beautiful people making bad decisions is soothing enough to override one’s critical faculties.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 19 June 2026
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  • More than an idyllic lakeside hamlet beloved by the international jet set, the northern Italian town of Como and the surrounding area are home to the country’s biggest silk-making districts, part of Italy’s fashion supply chain backbone.
    — Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 23 June 2026
  • The business jet set flew from Montreal, Canada, to Nice, France, in just over six hours.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 8 June 2026
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