Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun oligarchy

1 sense of oligarchy

Sense 1
oligarchy -- (a political system governed by a few people; "one of his cardinal convictions was that Britain was not run as a democracy but as an oligarchy"; "the big cities were notoriously in the hands of the oligarchy of local businessmen")
       => political system, form of government -- (the members of a social organization who are in power)