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cottonocracy
cottonocracy colloq. (kɒt(ə)nˈɒkrəsɪ) [f. cotton, after aristocracy: see -cracy.] The class who have risen to wealth through the cotton trade; the cotton-planting or cotton-spinning interest.1845 Ford Handbk. Spain I. ii. 343 To believe that he [Espartero] was the tool of the Manchester Cottonocracy...
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-crat
-crat, -ocrat, suffix formerly also -crate, immediately after F. -crate in aristocrate, démocrate, formed from aristocratique, démocratique, with the sense ‘partisan of an aristocracy or aristocratic government, of a democracy or democratic government’. By an easy transition, aristocrate came at the...
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-cracy
-cracy (-krəsɪ) formerly also -cratie, -crasie, a. F. -cratie, ad. med.L. -cratia, a. Gr. -κρατία, in composition ‘power, rule’, f. κράτος strength, might, rule, authority. Already used in Greek in ἀριστοκρατία aristocracy, rule of the best-born, δηµοκρατία democracy, popular government, ὀχλοκρατία ...
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