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Building companies involves creating great wealth. If that means I am an oligarch, OK, it's fine. But if being an oligarch is about buying football clubs, it is not for me.
Alexei Mordashov

Meaning of "oligarch" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF OLIGARCH

oligarch  [ˈɒlɪˌɡɑːk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF OLIGARCH

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Oligarch is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES OLIGARCH MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of oligarch in the English dictionary

The definition of oligarch in the dictionary is a member of an oligarchy.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH OLIGARCH


arc
ɑːk
at.
ɑːk
bookmark
ˈbʊkˌmɑːk
Clark
klɑːk
dark
dɑːk
dat.
dɑːk
Denmark
ˈdɛnmɑːk
Irak
ɪˈrɑːk
Iraq
ɪˈrɑːk
landmark
ˈlændˌmɑːk
lat.
lɑːk
marc
mɑːk
mark
mɑːk
marque
mɑːk
mat.
mɑːk
park
pɑːk
shark
ʃɑːk
spark
spɑːk
stark
stɑːk
trademark
ˈtreɪdˌmɑːk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE OLIGARCH

oligaemia
oligaemic
oligarchal
oligarchic
oligarchical
oligarchically
oligarchies
oligarchy
oligemia
oligemic
oligist
Oligocene
oligochaete
oligochrome
oligoclase
oligocythaemia
oligodendrocyte
oligodendroglia
oligogene
oligomer

WORDS THAT END LIKE OLIGARCH

applied research
arch
cornstarch
global search
job search
larch
march
market research
marketing research
monarch
operational research
operations research
patriarch
research
search
starch
stem-cell research
the Long March
triumphal arch
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Synonyms and antonyms of oligarch in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «oligarch» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF OLIGARCH

Find out the translation of oligarch to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of oligarch from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «oligarch» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

寡头
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

oligarca
570 millions of speakers

English

oligarch
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कुलीन
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

حكم القلة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

олигарх
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

oligarca
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

গোষ্ঠীশাসন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

oligarque
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Oligarki
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Oligarch
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ロシアの新興財閥
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

과두 정치의 독재자
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Oligarki
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

người chủ trương thiểu số chánh trị
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தன்னலக்குழுத்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कुलीन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

oligarşi yöneticisi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

oligarca
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

oligarcha
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

олігарх
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

oligarh
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ολιγάρχης
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

oligarch
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

oligarch
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

oligarken
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of oligarch

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «OLIGARCH»

The term «oligarch» is regularly used and occupies the 102.430 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «OLIGARCH» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about oligarch

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5 QUOTES WITH «OLIGARCH»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word oligarch.
1
Aeschines
Be assured, fellow citizens, that in a democracy it is the laws that guard the person of the citizen and the constitution of the state, whereas the despot and the oligarch find their protection in suspicion and in armed guards.
2
Bidzina Ivanishvili
I've never been an oligarch. The definition of an oligarch is someone who has co-operated with the government, and I never did.
3
Alexei Mordashov
Building companies involves creating great wealth. If that means I am an oligarch, OK, it's fine. But if being an oligarch is about buying football clubs, it is not for me.
4
Vladimir Potanin
It is not so much that I am a blue-blooded oligarch: I just don't feel like an oligarch.
5
Gary Shteyngart
If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OLIGARCH»

Discover the use of oligarch in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to oligarch and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Silent Oligarch: A Novel
“A happy partner to the work of Deighton, Archer, and le Carré... carried on craftily understated prose that approaches cold poetry… a first-class novel." (Booklist, starred review) Racing between London and Moscow, Kazakhstan and the ...
Christopher Morgan Jones, 2012
2
I Was a Potato Oligarch: Travels and Travails in the New Russia
Oligarchs pillage the nation. It looks as if Russia might become a liberal democracy. It also looks as if it might plunge into chaos. These are fascinating times and John Mole wants to be a part of them. But what can he do?
John Mole, 2010
3
The Oligarch's Wife
This is principally the story of two of those women: one English, one Russian, who become friends as girls in Moscow, and whose lives then become entwined through their turbulent relationships with the Oligarch.
Anna Blundy, 2010
4
Natalia Shelikhova: Russian Oligarch of Alaska Commerce
This volume makes available for the first time in English a variety of primary source materials relating to the life and work of Natalia Shelikov, a pioneering nineteenth-century Russian-American businesswoman.
Dawn Lea Black, Alexander Petrov, 2010
5
Classics in Translation, Volume I: Greek Literature
The Constitution of Athens BY THE "OLD OLIGARCH" Translated ly Paul MacKen&ricU INTRODUCTION SELECTIONS FROM THUCYDIDES' History Translated ly Gerald F. Else INTRODUCTION. Just as it would not be realistic to judge ...
Paul L. MacKendrick, Herbert M. Howe, 1952
6
The Old Oligarch: Pseudo-Xenophon's 'Constitution of Athens'
A translation, with introduction and bibliography, of Pseudo-Xenophon's Constitution of the Athenians, which combines a cynical sketch of many features of Periclean Athens with an almost generous admission that, from the point of view of ...
Xenophon, Kenneth Hughes, Margaret Thorpe, 1992
7
The Old Oligarch: Pseudo-Xenophon's Constitution of Athens
A translation, with introduction and bibliography, of Pseudo-Xenophon's Constitution of the Athenians, which combines a cynical sketch of many features of Periclean Athens with an almost generous admission that, from the point of view of ...
Robin Osborne, 2004
8
Putin and the Oligarch: The Khodorkovsky-Yukos Affair
The report stressed the 'anti-national' character of the oligarch system. Its property tended to be registered abroad, often in offshore companies. This was not just for tax minimisation and cash-flow purposes, but because 'in the collective ...
Richard Sakwa, 2014
9
Social Networks: Critical Concepts in Sociology
... Medici 22,629 1345 13 Non-Medicean blocks: Ardinghelli: Ardinghelli Oligarch 57,596 1282 32 da Panzano Split loyalties (1/1) 1312 22 Da Uzzano: da Uzzano 75,737 1363 11 Bucelli Oligarch 20,394 1284 22 Guasconi: Guasconi Oligarch ...
John Scott, 2002
10
The 'Old Oligarch': The Constitution of the Athenians ...
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Xenophon, John L. Marr, P. Peter John Rhodes, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OLIGARCH»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term oligarch is used in the context of the following news items.
1
The great Greece fire sale
... when valuable state assets were sold at knockdown prices to raise urgently-needed cash, creating a new oligarch class in the process. «The Guardian, Jul 15»
2
Greece – Rescue without Debt
The Greek oligarch have long ago, way before entering of the Syriza Government, transferred their fortunes abroad, similar to what the Cypriot ... «Center for Research on Globalization, Jul 15»
3
The benefit cap risks turning half of England into a ghetto
If the poor are forced out of the south, you won't walk into a Starbucks in Oxford to find an oligarch serving you an espresso, or a hedge fund ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
4
Lessons in Democracy on Ukraine's Front Line
Korban is a Ukrainian businessman and former deputy of oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky, whom Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko removed as ... «Newsweek, Jul 15»
5
Alien quest makes sense
Milner made headlines in Russia in 1995 when, as a junior associate of the ascending oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, he undertook the ... «Columbia Daily Tribune, Jul 15»
6
Heading for Moscow in last of Joanna Lumley's Trans-Siberian …
She drinks vodka with a local fisherman before getting back on the train for Krasnoyarsk where she meets an oligarch! From there it's across the ... «stv.tv, Jul 15»
7
Gadfly: Gina courts more drama
... of interior fusion, picking up the latest trends in Russian oligarch style. When Godwin put his Canberra house on the market a few years ago, ... «The Saturday Paper, Jul 15»
8
Trouble in paradise over new land law
For the oligarch who has everything, it is a tantalising news. The Maldives Government has passed a law which will, for the first time, allow ... «New Zealand Herald, Jul 15»
9
National Gallery chairman writes revealing roman-à-clef
... for the Watteau, including a Russian homesick killer oligarch in exile whom an utterly gay, high society Mr Fixit decides to turn into a collector, ... «Art Newspaper, Jul 15»
10
Russia to File Int'l Arrest Warrant for Ukraine's Minister, Oligarch
Russia's Investigative Committee will issue a second international arrest warrant for Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov and notorious ... «Sputnik International, Jul 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Oligarch [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/oligarch>. Apr 2024 ».
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