Word Meanings - PLUTOCRATIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to plutocracy; as, plutocratic ideas. Bagehot.

Related words: (words related to PLUTOCRATIC)

• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• PLUTOCRATIC
  Of or pertaining to plutocracy; as, plutocratic ideas. Bagehot.
• PLUTOCRACY
  A form of government in which the supreme power is lodged in the hands of the wealthy classes; government by the rich; also, a controlling or influential class of rich men.
• APPERTAIN
  To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach