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plutocrat

noun as in wealthy person with power

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Since then in the real world, we’ve watched billionaires cover up sex scandals, sulkily testify in front of congress, and launch rockets into space—but those plutocrats don’t ruin the world with quite as much style as the Roy family.

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He set about ticking the boxes required of any self-respecting plutocrat enthusiastically.

Another paranoid plutocrat compares Democrats to Hitler, betraying his utter ignorance about Hitler.

Kennedy had hardly been a standout student, but his financial acumen had transformed him into a fellow plutocrat.

Plutocrat sweethearts Dagny Taggart and Hank Rearden join the movement as the masses clamor for revolution.

This was the corporations-are-people Romney, who seems like a plutocrat even as he tries to strike an average-guy tone.

The plutocrat of the unhappy tribe of Hue and Cry rose and stretched with a comfortable grunt.

Miss Inglis, late of Mallowfield Hall, was not to be put down by a vulgar plutocrat.

It is different with women; but a male bookkeeper can dress nearly as well, if not so variously, as a plutocrat.

This was the grandson of the original Moggs, and a very typical instance of an educated, cultivated, degenerate plutocrat.

He will retire from politics, from head-hunting among the plutocrats, and will soon be a plutocrat and a palace-dweller himself.

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On this page you'll find 5 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to plutocrat, such as: capitalist, magnate, and tycoon.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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