How do you use Oligarch in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like ruler, plus the exact meaning.
Oligarch in a sentence
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Oligarch meaning
- A member of an oligarchy; someone who is part of a small group that runs a country.
- A very wealthy business owner who wields political power.
- A protoplanet formed during oligarchic accretion.
Synonyms of Oligarch
Using Oligarch
- The main meaning on this page is: A member of an oligarchy; someone who is part of a small group that runs a country. | A very wealthy business owner who wields political power. | A protoplanet formed during oligarchic accretion.
- Useful related words include: ruler, swayer.
- In the example corpus, oligarch often appears in combinations such as: russian oligarch, the oligarch, an oligarch.
Context around Oligarch
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 7 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Oligarch
- In this selection, "oligarch" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 20.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, russian, rival, wealthy, roman, files and wielding stand out and add context to how "oligarch" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a corrupt oligarch so was and a rival oligarch in return. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "oligarch" sits close to words such as abate, aeronautics and affidavits, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with oligarch
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Putin’s oligarch-corrupted economy lags far behind. (8 words)
Very true, need the private jet to complete the oligarch trifecta. (11 words)
For a decade she was married to the Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich. (12 words)
Russian oligarch turned warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin is in exile in Belarus, but what will become of the tens of thousands of fighters who signed up to risk their lives for a paycheck or a ticket out of jail? (38 words)
The events of Queen K are narrated by an unreliable tutor who, while teaching an oligarch’s daughter, becomes privy to suspicious deaths and to the downfall of his wife. (30 words)
A person who works closely with a billionaire Russian oligarch said he assessed the risk the oligarch’s business would be put under US sanctions was only 10 percent. (29 words)
Russian oligarch turned warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin is in exile in Belarus, but what will become of the tens of thousands of fighters who signed up to risk their lives for a paycheck or a ticket out of jail? (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
A person who works closely with a billionaire Russian oligarch said he assessed the risk the oligarch’s business would be put under US sanctions was only 10 percent.
According to the Justice Department, the pair, who both worked for the FBI and investigated oligarchs, agreed to investigate a rival oligarch in return for payments from Deripaska.
Alot of their oligarch's assets have already been seized for this purpose.
An anonymous source shared the "large cache" of documents -- dubbed "the Oligarch files" -- with the newspaper, it reported.
And if they did, it would take one phone call to some dodgy Russian oligarch to plug the hole.
As for sanctioning the chief financial officers, the logic may be that British newspapers operate like many Russian ones, with a wealthy oligarch wielding all the power.
Bottom: Konstantin Malofeyev (left), the Russian oligarch alleged to have employed Hanick, also was indicted by the Justice Department.
For a decade she was married to the Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich.
In the Philippines, Oligarch-and-Clan Corruption manifests itself in the political system.
Medvedev said he reported directly to the group's founders, Dmitry Utkin and Russian oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin.
Putin’s oligarch-corrupted economy lags far behind.
Russian oligarch turned warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin is in exile in Belarus, but what will become of the tens of thousands of fighters who signed up to risk their lives for a paycheck or a ticket out of jail?
The associate of oligarch Roman Abramovich argued sanctions caused him "serious hardship," adding he hadn't seen Vladimir Putin for years.
The events of Queen K are narrated by an unreliable tutor who, while teaching an oligarch’s daughter, becomes privy to suspicious deaths and to the downfall of his wife.
Very true, need the private jet to complete the oligarch trifecta.
What helped was that the war greatly reduced the value of oligarch assets in Ukraine.
What’s more, in November last year, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy launched the process of dismantling Ukraine’s oligarchic system by the anti-oligarch law.
When Hunter Biden was given a seat on the board of a Ukrainian energy company called Burisma and owned by a corrupt oligarch, so was Devon Archer.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner Group of mercenaries, is a Russian oligarch who has long been one of Putin's cronies.
Zingarevich Sr was a billionaire twice over, a part of the oligarch group, and his son went to Bearwood College, spoke English.
Common combinations with oligarch
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- russian oligarch 26×
- the oligarch 13×
- an oligarch 9×
- oligarch and 5×
- oligarch who 4×
- oligarch in 3×
- oligarch roman 3×
- of oligarch 3×
- oligarch oleg 3×
- oligarch so 2×