Acreocracy

//eɪkəˈɹɒkɹəsi// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Important landowners, considered as a class.

    "The Acre-ocracy of England: A list of all owners of three thousand acres and upwards."

  2. 2
    The land owned by such people.

    "We'd been two years on our Pedernales acreocracy, not far from Fredericksburg, when our neighbor had two horses stolen in broad daylight."

Example

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"The Acre-ocracy of England: A list of all owners of three thousand acres and upwards."

Etymology

From acre + -ocracy.

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