oligarchy
B2CEFR level
45/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
General noun
A system in which power rests with a small, privileged group of people.
After the revolution, real authority quietly passed to an oligarchy of wealthy landowners.
Law noun
A form of government in which power rests with a small privileged group.
Critics warned that concentrating authority in a handful of families amounted to an oligarchy.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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