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A member of an oligarchy; someone who is part of a small group that runs a country. / A very wealthy business owner who wields political power.

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oligarch

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Source Word

oligarch

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ˈoʊlɪˌɡɑɹk/

Japanese Meaning

寡頭政治に属する人、または寡頭政治を実行する一員 / 極めて裕福な実業家で、政治権力も持つ人物

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The oligarch quietly funded museums and universities to burnish his public image.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

その寡頭政治の一員は、彼の公的イメージを高めるために美術館や大学にひそかに資金を提供した。

Sense（1）

A member of an oligarchy; someone who is part of a small group that runs a country.

Sense（2）

A very wealthy business owner who wields political power.

Millions of people were starving, while the oligarchs and their supporters were surfeiting on the surplus.

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Sense（3）

(cosmogony) A protoplanet formed during oligarchic accretion.

In the inner Solar System, only the asteroid Ceres was able to grow fast enough to become a dwarf planet, but in the outer Solar System huge numbers of icy bodies formed, ranging from pebbles to the oligarchs now recognized as dwarf planets.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

oligarchs

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