Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

plutodemocracy

/ˌplutoʊdɪˈmɒkɹəsi/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: plu-todemoc-ra-cy
IPA: /ˌplutoʊdɪˈmɒkɹəsi/

26

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

4

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A deceptive pseudodemocratic government that is in fact a hypercapitalist plutocracy.

Example Sentences

"The old ruling classes were no longer the major obstacles to the development of plutodemocracy; they were replaced by the new oppressed class, the proletariat, which was beginning to become sufficiently powerful to threaten capitalism."
"It can no more survive as a plutodemocracy than it could, before the Civil War, survive half slave and half free."
"If the people are the basis of money politics, then Japan must be a plutodemocracy."
"Reds, sweeping aside the garbage of plutodemocracy, and dissolving the bourgeois parties, I remained stuck in France."

Etymology

Blend of plutocracy + democracy.

Inflected Forms

plutodemocracies (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

plutodemocratic

Questions

How do you pronounce plutodemocracy?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˌplutoʊdɪˈmɒkɹəsi/.
What does plutodemocracy mean?: A deceptive pseudodemocratic government that is in fact a hypercapitalist plutocracy.
Where does plutodemocracy come from?: Blend of plutocracy + democracy.

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