A business oligarch is generally a
business magnate who controls sufficient resources to influence national politics.
A business leader can be considered an
oligarch if the following conditions are satisfied:
# uses monopolistic tactics to dominate an industry;
# possesses sufficient political power to promote their own interests;
# controls multiple businesses, which intensively coordinate their activities.
More generally, an oligarch () is a "member of an
oligarchy
Oligarchy (; ) is a conceptual form of power structure in which power rests with a small number of people. These people may or may not be distinguished by one or several characteristics, such as nobility, fame, wealth, education, or corporate, r ...
; a person who is part of a small group holding power in a state".
See also
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Russian oligarch
Russian oligarchs ( Russian: олигархи, romanized: ''oligarkhi'') are business oligarchs of the former Soviet republics who rapidly accumulated wealth in the 1990s via the Russian privatisation that followed the dissolution of the Sovi ...
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Ukrainian oligarchs
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Oligarchy
Oligarchy (; ) is a conceptual form of power structure in which power rests with a small number of people. These people may or may not be distinguished by one or several characteristics, such as nobility, fame, wealth, education, or corporate, r ...
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Tai-pan
A tai-pan (,Andrew J. Moody, "Transmission Languages and Source Languages of Chinese Borrowings in English", ''American Speech'', Vol. 71, No. 4 (Winter, 1996), pp. 414-415. literally "top class"汉英词典 — ''A Chinese-English Dictionary' ...
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Chaebol
References
Social groups
Wealth concentration
Oligarchy
Post-Soviet states
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