plutocrat

noun

Definition of plutocratnext
as in capitalist
a wealthy person the 19th-century plutocrats who built their enormous summer "cottages" in Newport

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Recent Examples of plutocrat Not until early in the next century did Congress take on the depredations of Gilded Age plutocrats. — Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2026 The provenance of an otherwise unknown plutocrat probably does not. — Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 5 Aug. 2026 His father, Richard, a plutocrat who offers him a job at his company, is equally distressing. — Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026 The issue is the policy infrastructure that allows people like Musk to become not rich, not super-rich, but plutocrat-rich. — Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic, 6 July 2026 Not to mention a conga line of billionaire tech, real-estate, and finance plutocrats paying feasance to a faux populist in exchange for contracts, pardons, and sundry favors. — Graydon Carter, Air Mail, 4 July 2026 Then the plutocrats circled their yachts. — Gary Sernovitz, New Yorker, 15 June 2026 The Titanic is still a subject of worldwide fascination, in part because of the range of passengers aboard the ship, from paupers to plutocrats. — Jill Lawless, Chicago Tribune, 19 Apr. 2026 The gaslighting evil plutocrats who want everything own the Federalist Society, Heritage Foundation and other think tanks. — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 23 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for plutocrat
  1. capitalist
  2. have
  3. magnate
  4. billionaire
Noun
  • The billionaire venture capitalist and PayPal co-founder quietly bought the property through a limited liability company at a foreclosure auction in Pomona in July, according to the Wall Street Journal, which first reported the sale.
    — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2026
  • Other significant players include venture capitalists Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, and OpenAI president and co-founder Greg Brockman.
    — Katie McQue, NPR, 26 Sep. 2026
Definition of capitalist
Noun
  • His image suggests an instinct for how a certain can’t-have-it distance is a condition of cool and bankability.
    — David Lê, Curbed, 8 Sep. 2026
  • And is a 165-pound back your best north-south option on a gotta-have-it conversion when Micah Welch, who outweighs Taylor by 50 pounds, could hammer it home?
    — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of have
Noun
  • The shipping magnate led Hong Kong from 1997 to 2005, steering it through the Asian financial crisis, deadly SARS outbreak and massive protests over a controversial anti-treason law.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2026
  • The President, who likes his steak well done and slathered in ketchup, met with a Brazilian beef magnate named Joesley Batista, who in the past had admitted to making large payments to public officials and was briefly jailed.
    — Bill McKibben, New Yorker, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of magnate
Noun
  • In an interview about Griffin’s donation to CMU this week, CNBC’s Sara Eisen asked the billionaire whether his decision to invest in Carnegie Mellon’s Miami campus had to do with his concerns over college students’ growing interest in socialism.
    — Austin Horn, Miami Herald, 3 Oct. 2026
  • The measure would affect roughly 200 of California's billionaires, with the money going to cover federal Medi-Cal cuts.
    — Juhi Doshi, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2026
Definition of billionaire

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“Plutocrat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plutocrat. Accessed 5 Oct. 2026.

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