oligarch
名词 n.
英 /ˈɒlɪˌɡɑːk/
美 /ˈɑləɡɑɹk/|/ˈoʊləɡɑɹk/
英文释义
名词 n.
- A member of an oligarchy; someone who is part of a small group that runs a country.
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A very wealthy business owner who wields political power.
— Millions of people were starving, while the oligarchs and their supporters were surfeiting on the surplus.
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A protoplanet formed during oligarchic accretion.
— In the inner Solar System, only the asteroid Ceres was able to grow fast enough to become a dwarf planet, but in the outer Solar System huge numbers of icy bodies formed, ranging from pebbles to the oligarchs now recognized as dwarf planets.
词形变化
词汇关系
词源
From French oligarque, olygarche, from Late Latin oligarcha, from Ancient Greek ὀλιγάρχης (oligárkhēs). By surface analysis, olig- (“few”) + -arch (“ruler, leader”).
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