plutocrats

plural of plutocrat

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Recent Examples of plutocrats As a warning to plutocrats, a guillotine is hard to beat, but its symbolism goes beyond the obvious. Paul Kingsnorth, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for plutocrats
Noun
  • With the public willing to finance anything, company after company came public, and the venture capitalists were making fortunes often on the deals and then on the follow-ons.
    Jim Cramer, CNBC, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Whereas constant capital refers to the expenditures capitalists make for material means of production, variable capital refers to their expenses for human labor-power.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • These aren't nice-to-haves anymore.
    Jaime Catmull, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • It’s been a year of haves and have-nots for the industrials, with companies heavily tied to data center construction, electrification, power generation, and aerospace largely outperforming the rest of the sector.
    Jeff Marks, CNBC, 16 Sep. 2025

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“Plutocrats.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plutocrats. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.

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