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shopocracy
shopocracy (ʃɒˈpɒkrəsɪ) [f. shop n.: see -cracy.] Shopkeepers as a class aspiring to social importance; a wealthy or influential body of shopkeepers. So shopocrat (ˈʃɒpəkræt) [-crat], a member of the shopocracy; also attrib.1832 Poor Man's Guardian 9 June 419 ‘The Shopocracy’ in the neighbourhood..w...
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mobocracy
mobocracy (mɒˈbɒkrəsɪ) [f. mob n.1, after democracy, ochlocracy: see -cracy.] 1. The rule of the mob, government by a mob.1754 A. Murphy Gray's-Inn Jrnl. No. 95 Another Mode of civil Policy, which cannot be called by a better name than a Mobocracy. 1789 F. Burney Diary 19 Nov., Mr. Wilkes..quarrelle...
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John Barnie
Twenty-First Century (2010)
Fiction
The Confirmation (1992)
The City (1993)
The Wine Bird (1998)
Autobiographical
Abergavenny (1997)
Tales of the Shopocracy
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moneyocracy
moneyocracy jocular. (mʌnɪˈɒkrəsɪ) [See -cracy.] The moneyed class as a ruling power.1834 Blackw. Mag. XXXV. 339 Which has at last precipitated the nation, bound hand and foot into the bonds of the shopocracy and moneyocracy. 1859 Sala Gas-light & D. xxvi, The flower of the British aristocracy and m...
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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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territorialism
territorialism (tɛrɪˈtɔərɪəlɪz(ə)m) [f. prec. + -ism.] A territorial system. 1. A system which gives predominance to the landed class; landlordism.1881 Parnell in Philad. Record No. 3357. 1 Appealing to the great masses of England and Scotland against the territorialism and shopocracy which dominate...
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