Both Uses of
oligarchy
in
Main Street
- It'd had more generations in which to form an oligarchy of respectability.†
Chpt 13 *
- It is the Harry Haydocks, the Dave Dyers, the Jackson Elders, small busy men crushingly powerful in their common purpose, viewing themselves as men of the world but keeping themselves men of the cash-register and the comic film, who make the town a sterile oligarchy.†
Chpt 22
Definition:
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(oligarchy) a political system governed by a few people