oligarch

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100 years ago there was a common saying, as rich as an Argentine, like we might say as rich as an oligarch today.

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one of the rulers in an oligarchy

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noun

one of the rulers in an oligarchy

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Core meanings and parts of speech for oligarch.

noun

one of the rulers in an oligarchy

Example sentences

100 years ago there was a common saying, as rich as an Argentine, like we might say as rich as an oligarch today.

"100 years ago there was a common saying, as rich as an Argentine, like we might say as rich as an oligarch today.

But he also has huge sacks of money to throw around, most of which comes from oligarch Alisher Usmanov.

That will be the simple average rather than the median, so it's biased by crazy oligarch prices.

You need to be more like Putin getting himself annointed by some oligarchs and then turning on them and making himself the supreme oligarch.

Yes, most Russian oligarch billionaires got their wealth purely through acute business acumen...

I don't see how any member of a thigh-knit oligarchy could get this done without leaving a trail that could get him fired for cause and publicly humiliated.

There are rules to being an oligarch, though the payoff is a lot better, and Khodorkovsky should have had a more sophisticated understanding of the terms of the deal.

Just as if in a capitalist country an oligarch clique takes over all the real power, that's not a reason to stop considering it a capitalist country.

> This is the issue right now in London where lots of Arab and Russian oligarch-types taking advantage of non-domicile tax laws drive up the cost of livingThe US tax law is not like that.