different between plutocracy vs corporatism

English

Alternative forms

• plousiocracy, ploutocracy

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????????? (ploutokratía, “rule of the wealthy”), from ???????????? (ploutokraté?, “I rule through wealth”), from ??????? (ploûtos, “wealth”) + ?????? (kraté?, “I rule”) (from ?????? (krátos, “power”, “might”)).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /plu??t?k??si/
• (US) IPA^(key): /plu??t??k??si/

Noun

plutocracy (countable and uncountable, plural plutocracies)

1. Government by the wealthy.
2. A controlling class of the wealthy.

Synonyms

• argentocracy (nonce word)
• tycoonocracy (uncommon)

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Translations

Further reading

• plutocracy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology 1

corporate +? -ism

Noun

corporatism (countable and uncountable, plural corporatisms)

1. A political system in which society is organized into collective interest groups or "bodies" (Latin corpora) which are subservient to the state and act as organs of political representation.

Related terms

• corporatist

Etymology 2

From corporation +? capitalism

Noun

corporatism (countable and uncountable, plural corporatisms)

1. (chiefly US, derogatory) A form of capitalism in which the government is lobbied by, or generally heavily favors, corporations at the expense of the general populace.

   Synonym: neocorporatism

Anagrams

• proto-racism, protoracism

Romanian

Etymology

From French corporatisme

Noun

corporatism n (uncountable)

1. corporatism

Declension