Definition of oligarchy

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Definition of oligarchy

  • a political system governed by a few people (noun)

    Examples

    1. one of his cardinal convictions was that Britain was not run as a democracy but as an oligarchy
    2. the big cities were notoriously in the hands of the oligarchy of local businessmen

See definition of oligarchy in Merriam Webster