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aristocrat
The highest social class in a country, usually because of birth and wealth.
🌱A wealthy aristocrat from a famous European family, she surprised everyone by becoming a supporter of little-known jazz musicians. 🌳Since aristos means "best" in Greek, ancient Greeks such as Plato and Aristotle used the word aristocracy to mean a system of rule by the best people—that is, those who deserved to rule because of their intelligence and moral excellence. But this kind of "best" soon became something you could inherit from your parents. The United States has no formal aristocracy—no noble titles such as baron or marquis that stay in the family—but certain American families have achieved an almost aristocratic status because of the wealth they've held onto for generations. autocratic 1、 Having to do with a form of government in which one person rules.
2、 Resembling the ruler of such a government.
🌱It's hard to believe that a guy who seems so nice to his friends is an autocratic boss who sometimes fires people just because he's in a bad mood. 🌳Autos in Greek means "same" or "self," so in an autocratic government all the power is held by the leader him- or herself. Autocratic governments are often called dictatorships, or sometimes autocracies.In everyday life, a teacher, a parent, or a football coach can all behave like autocrats as well. bureaucrat 1、 An appointed government official.
2、 An official of a government or system that is marked by fixed and complex rules that often result in long delays.
🌱To settle his insurance claim he had to make his way through four or five bureaucrats, every one of them with a new form to fill out. 🌳In French, a bureau is a desk, so bureaucracy means basically "government by people at desks." Despite the bad-mouthing they often get, partly because they usually have to stick so close to the rules, bureaucrats do almost all the day-to-day work that keeps a government running. The idea of a bureaucracy is to split up the complicated task of governing a large country into smaller jobs that can be handled by specialists. Bureaucratic government is nothing new; the Roman empire had an enormous and complex bureaucracy, with the bureaucrats at lower levels reporting to bureaucrats above them, and so on up to the emperor himself. plutocracy 1、 Government by the wealthy.
2、 A controlling class of wealthy people.
🌱Theodore Roosevelt sought to limit the power held by the plutocracy of wealthy industrialists. 🌳Ploutos was Greek for "wealth," and Plouton, or Pluto, was one of the names used for the Greek god of the underworld, where all the earth's mineral wealth was stored. So a plutocracy governs or wields power through its money. The economic growth in the U.S. in the late 19th century produced a group of enormously wealthy plutocrats.Huge companies like John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil gained serious political power, and Rockefeller was able to influence lawmakers in states where his businesses operated. For this reason, it was said in 1905 that Ohio and New Jersey were plutocracies, not democracies.
🌱A wealthy aristocrat from a famous European family, she surprised everyone by becoming a supporter of little-known jazz musicians. 🌳Since aristos means "best" in Greek, ancient Greeks such as Plato and Aristotle used the word aristocracy to mean a system of rule by the best people—that is, those who deserved to rule because of their intelligence and moral excellence. But this kind of "best" soon became something you could inherit from your parents. The United States has no formal aristocracy—no noble titles such as baron or marquis that stay in the family—but certain American families have achieved an almost aristocratic status because of the wealth they've held onto for generations. autocratic 1、 Having to do with a form of government in which one person rules.
2、 Resembling the ruler of such a government.
🌱It's hard to believe that a guy who seems so nice to his friends is an autocratic boss who sometimes fires people just because he's in a bad mood. 🌳Autos in Greek means "same" or "self," so in an autocratic government all the power is held by the leader him- or herself. Autocratic governments are often called dictatorships, or sometimes autocracies.In everyday life, a teacher, a parent, or a football coach can all behave like autocrats as well. bureaucrat 1、 An appointed government official.
2、 An official of a government or system that is marked by fixed and complex rules that often result in long delays.
🌱To settle his insurance claim he had to make his way through four or five bureaucrats, every one of them with a new form to fill out. 🌳In French, a bureau is a desk, so bureaucracy means basically "government by people at desks." Despite the bad-mouthing they often get, partly because they usually have to stick so close to the rules, bureaucrats do almost all the day-to-day work that keeps a government running. The idea of a bureaucracy is to split up the complicated task of governing a large country into smaller jobs that can be handled by specialists. Bureaucratic government is nothing new; the Roman empire had an enormous and complex bureaucracy, with the bureaucrats at lower levels reporting to bureaucrats above them, and so on up to the emperor himself. plutocracy 1、 Government by the wealthy.
2、 A controlling class of wealthy people.
🌱Theodore Roosevelt sought to limit the power held by the plutocracy of wealthy industrialists. 🌳Ploutos was Greek for "wealth," and Plouton, or Pluto, was one of the names used for the Greek god of the underworld, where all the earth's mineral wealth was stored. So a plutocracy governs or wields power through its money. The economic growth in the U.S. in the late 19th century produced a group of enormously wealthy plutocrats.Huge companies like John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil gained serious political power, and Rockefeller was able to influence lawmakers in states where his businesses operated. For this reason, it was said in 1905 that Ohio and New Jersey were plutocracies, not democracies.
CRAC/CRAT comes from the Greek word meaning "power." Attached to another root, it indicates which group holds the power. With demos, the Greek word for "people," it forms democracy, a form of government in which the people rule. A theocracy, from the Greek theos,"god," is government based on divine guidance. In a meritocracy, people earn power by their own merit.🌸