Converse of subject

• rule: Until 1916 the country was ruled by an oligarchy of landowners who operated a parliament on a restricted suffrage.

Converse of object

• land: The liberal leadership simply joined the ranks of the existing landed oligarchy.

• perpetuate: While paying lip-service to democracy they perpetuate an unhealthy oligarchy.

• support: For supporting the criminal oligarchy in Venezuela, and for its historic interference in the internal affairs of peoples.

• have: If people went around saying we had an electoral oligarchy you would get a blank look from most.

• establish: At length the exiles, becoming numerous, returned, and, engaging and defeating the people, established the oligarchy.

• remain: It will remain literally an oligarchy, a committee of 25 ministers making laws in secret for 450 million people.

Adjective modifier

• financial: Only in this way can the plans of the financial oligarchy be blocked.

• international: Behind these structures anonymous monetary aces of the international financial oligarchy hide.

• new: Like most of the new Russian oligarchy there have been some rather murky chapters in Mr Abramovich's past.

• self-perpetuating: There is, here, the real risk of a self-perpetuating oligarchy.

• Whig: How secure was the Whig oligarchy that came to power at the death of Queen Anne in 1714?

• small: Responsible for this situation is a small oligarchy of visible and invisible persons who want to impose their agenda for global domination.

Noun used with modifier

• ruling: Salazar's economic policies greatly enhanced the wealth of the ruling oligarchy.