Definition of "oligarch" []

• A member of a small governing faction. (noun)

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• "That he has done this, only in the end to pass into the perpetual slavery of the industrial oligarch, is something at which his whole past cries in protest."
• "During the forum for investors, Hayden faced that simple question: They see that the Russian oligarch is the owner of the team."
• "Could it be that the closest friend of [exiled anti-Putin Russian oligarch] Boris Berezovsky is working as an agent of Moscow?"