plantocracy

American

[plan-tok-ruh-see] / plænˈtɒk rə si /

noun

government by plantation owners.
a ruling class of plantation owners.

plantocracy British

/ plɑːnˈtɒkrəsɪ /

noun

a ruling social class composed of planters

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noun

plantocracies

plural

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A grass-roots labor leader who came to power by flouting the colonial plantocracy, Gairy ruled by caprice.

From Time Magazine Archive

They were the ones that Dalby Bedford, now seated beside her, diplomatically sipping from his tankard, liked to call the "plantocracy."

From Caribbee by Hoover, Thomas

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