Usually means: Rule by a few elites.
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  1. oligarchical: Merriam-Webster
  2. oligarchical: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. oligarchical: Collins English Dictionary
  4. oligarchical: Vocabulary.com
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  6. oligarchical: Wiktionary
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  8. Oligarchical: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Oligarchical: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. oligarchical: Rhymezone
  11. Oligarchical: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. oligarchical: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. oligarchical: FreeDictionary.org
  14. oligarchical: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. oligarchical: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. oligarchical: Legal dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Oligarchic.

Similar:
oligarchic, polyarchal, polyarchic, oligopolistic, polyarchical, polyhierarchical, oligotrichous, hierarchic, minarchical, monopolous, more...

Opposite:
democratic, egalitarian, populist

Types:
monarchy, dictatorship, autocracy, despotism, totalitarianism, more...

Phrases:
The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism, more...

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Similar:
oligarchic, polyarchal, polyarchic, oligopolistic, polyarchical, polyhierarchical, oligotrichous, hierarchic, minarchical, monopolous, more...

Opposite:
democratic, egalitarian, populist

Types:
monarchy, dictatorship, autocracy, despotism, totalitarianism, more...

Phrases:
The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism, more...



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