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kleptocracy

[ klep-tok-ruh-see ]

noun

plural kleptocracies.
  1. a government or state in which those in power exploit national resources and steal; rule by a thief or thieves.


kleptocracy

/ ËŒ°ì±ôÉ›±èˈ³ÙÉ’°ì°ùÉ™²õɪ /

noun

  1. informal.
    a government where officials are politically corrupt and financially self-interested
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • °ì±ô±ð±è·³Ù´Ç·³¦°ù²¹³Ù [klep, -t, uh, -krat], noun
  • °ì±ô±ð±è·³Ù´Ç·³¦°ù²¹³Ù·ic [klep-t, uh, -, krat, -ik], adjective
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of kleptocracy1

1815–20; klepto- (combining form of Greek °ì±ôé±è³Ùŧ²õ thief) + -cracy
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of kleptocracy1

C20: from klepto ( mania ) + -cracy
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Example Sentences

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By the very nature of how power is concentrated around the Leader and their inner circle, autocracies and authoritarian regimes are almost always kleptocracies and plutocracies.

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He said the Trump administration is driving the country toward authoritarianism and kleptocracy, but Americans of all political stripes are standing up across the country to push back.

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Such an alliance is an unholy matrimony since Yarvin and his student technocrats seem only to be focused on a marriage of monarchism and kleptocracy.

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The new America that is in the process of being born will be a 21st-century American apartheid and White Christofascist plutocracy and kleptocracy.

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But if Trump wins, it will be clear that the U.S. is really moving toward an autocratic, cronyistic kleptocracy that will impoverish and weaken us as a nation.

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