plantocracy

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Etymology

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From plant +‎ -o- +‎ -cracy.

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Noun

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plantocracy (plural plantocracies)

  1. 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.
  2. 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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