Definition of "plutocrat" [plu•to•crat]

• Someone who rules by virtue of his or her wealth. (noun)

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• "Every movement of a United States plutocrat is recorded in the leading papers; every detail of his daughter's courtship and of her quarrels with her lover is described."
• "And when, later on, Leverett Whyland became less the "good citizen" and more the "plutocrat" -- a course perhaps inevitable under certain circumstances -- he would sometimes smile over those unsuccessful advances and would ask himself to what extent the discouraging unfaith of our Abner might be responsible for his choice and his fall."
• "One witty Occuprint poster depicts greed as a statue of the Monopoly game's iconic plutocrat, which is being toppled by a crowd the way monuments to Stalin and Saddam Hussein came down in recent memory."