oligarchic

oligarchic
oligarchically, adv.
/ol'i gahr"kik/, adj.
of, pertaining to, or having the form of an oligarchy.
[1640-50; < Gk oligarchikós, equiv. to oligarch(ía) OLIGARCHY + -ikos -IC]

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