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och·loc·ra·cy    Audio Help   [ok-lok-ruh-see] Pronunciation Key
–noun
government by the mob; mob rule; mobocracy.
[Origin: 1475–85; < Gk ochlokratía, equiv. to óchl(os) mob + -o- -o- + -kratia -cracy]

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och·lo·crat    Audio Help   [ok-luh-krat] Pronunciation Key, noun
och·lo·crat·ic, och·lo·crat·i·cal, adjective
och·lo·crat·i·cal·ly, adverb
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och·loc·ra·cy    Audio Help   (ŏk-lŏk'rə-sē)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   pl. och·loc·ra·cies
Government by the masses; mob rule.


[French ochlocratie, from Greek okhlokratiā : okhlos, mob; see wegh- in Indo-European roots + -kratiā, -cracy.]

och'lo·crat' (ŏk'lə-krāt') n., och'lo·crat'ic, och'lo·crat'i·cal adj., och'lo·crat'i·cal·ly adv.
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Main Entry:  ochlocracy
Part of Speech:  n
Definition:  See mob rule

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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
ochlocracy 
"government by the rabble," 1584, from Fr. ochlocratie (1568), from Gk. okhlokratia, from okhlos "mob" + kratos "rule, power, strength" (see -cracy).

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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ochlocracy

noun
a political system in which a mob is the source of control; government by the masses [syn: mobocracy] 

WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.

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