plantocracy
English
Etymology
plant + -o- + -cracy
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /plɑːnˈtɒkɹəsi/
- (US) IPA(key): /plænˈtɑkɹəsi/
Noun
plantocracy (plural plantocracies)
- Government by plantation owners.
- 1843, “A Voice from Trinidad”, in Colonial Magazine and Commercial-maritime Journal, page 465:
- Too many, however, who might take an honourable stand, fear the petty spleen of the plantocracy; preferring the most disgusting adulation, to the blessing of him ready to perish.
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- The group of plantation owners who have power in such a government.
- 1977, Terry Lacey, Violence and Politics in Jamaica, 1960-70: Internal Security in a Developing Country, The plantocracy and slavery:
- Although remnants of the plantocracy retained positions of economic and political importance into the 1960s and represented the hardest core of Jamaican conservatism, its significance was historical rather than contemporary.
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Related terms
- plantocrat
See also
- Appendix:Forms of government