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-ocracy
suffix
when linked with a subject, used to designate (and mock) a grouping that may be dominant, or aspiring to dominance, or pretending superiority within that subject-area UK, 1860
A sarcastic or humorous application of “-cracy” (power, rule), found in such words as “democracy”, “plutocracy”, etc. The root in all conventional senses ends with an “o”; in colloquial or journalistic usage the “o” is incorporated.- — Alexander Bard and Jan Soderqvist, Netocracy, 2002
- They bought expensive cars, country houses, hired chauffeurs (rather sensible, in some cases) and in general carried on like 17th-century rakes, but this is a common reaction to a Niagara of sudden wealth, and at least “the popocracy” invented their own formal ostentation. — The Guardian, 7 September 2002
- The rise of webocracy has already made South Korea a place of exhilarating but unpredictable change. — The Guardian, 24 February 2003
- Whether it’s America’s shift to the right or the rise and rise of America’s motor-mouth, talk-show culture, or the popular rebellion against establishment media or the emergence of a new Republican babe-ocracy, Ann Coulter represents it all. — The Guardian, 17 May 2003
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