Usually means: Rule by a few elites.
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  1. oligarchy: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. oligarchy: Merriam-Webster
  3. oligarchy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. oligarchy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. oligarchy: Collins English Dictionary
  6. oligarchy: Vocabulary.com
  7. Oligarchy, oligarchy: Wordnik
  8. oligarchy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. oligarchy: Wiktionary
  10. oligarchy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. oligarchy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. oligarchy: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. oligarchy: Dictionary.com
  14. oligarchy: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Oligarchy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Oligarchy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. oligarchy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. oligarchy: Rhymezone
  19. oligarchy: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  20. Oligarchy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. oligarchy: FreeDictionary.org
  22. oligarchy: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. oligarchy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. oligarchy: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. oligarchy: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names
  2. oligarchy: Global Glossary

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  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. Nelson Political Science Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Oligarchy: Legal dictionary

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  1. oligarchy: Encyclopedia

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  3. oligarchy: Wordcraft Dictionary

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  1. oligarchy: Anthropological Terms
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  1. oligarchy: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See oligarchies as well.)

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noun:  A government run by and for only a few, often the aristocracy, the wealthy, or their friends and associates.
noun:  A state ruled by such a government.
noun:  Those who make up an oligarchic government.

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