corpocracy
PRONUNCIATION:
MEANING:
noun: A society in which corporations control the government.
ETYMOLOGY:
From corporate, from Latin corpus (body) + -cracy (rule). Ultimately from the Indo-European root kwrep- (body, form), which is also the source of corps, corpus, corpse, corporation, corpulent, corset, corsage, leprechaun, and corpus delicti. Earliest documented use: 1935.


