-ocracy
the suffix -cracy, with the combining -o (orig. taken from the stem of the prec. element): as n., any form of government or domination to which a word in -ocracy can be applied. So -ocrat. See -cracy, -crat.
| 1831 C. C. F. Greville Mem. (1874) II. xiii. 112 It has elicited a strong Conservative demonstration, and proved that out of the rabble-ocracy (for everything is in ocracy now) his power is anything but unlimited. 1834 Tait's Mag. I. 180/1 The trade-ocracy and bureauocracy must now..prepare themselves to defer to the opinion of the men of hardened hands. 1894 Speaker 14 July 40/2 [To] erect the great pillar of human brotherhood on the ruins of all the ‘ocracies’. 1894 G. B. Shaw in Fortn. Rev. Apr. 489 Social-Democracy, like all other ‘-ocracies’, will have a great deal more trouble with its idle and worthless members than with its able ones. 1928 ― Intelligent Woman's Guide Socialism xliii. 166 If it be still necessary to call the rich an ocracy of any kind, they must be called a plutocracy. 1963 F. W. Frey in L. W. Pye Communications & Political Devel. xvii. 299 Movement towards ‘democracy’..or whatever one's preferred..‘ocracy’ happens to be. |