Meaning & use
Plute
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Dated informal American slang for a wealthy, powerful person; a plutocrat.
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The satirical cartoon depicted a top-hatted plute lighting a cigar with a dollar bill.
Local plutes funded much of the town's early infrastructure.
A note on using this word
"Plute" is a clipped form of "plutocrat" popular in early 20th-century American slang and political cartoons, now largely dated.
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