acreocracy
nounUK /eɪkəˈɹɒkɹəsi/
Etymology From acre + -ocracy.
1
Important landowners, considered as a class.
- The Acre-ocracy of England: A list of all owners of three thousand acres and upwards.1876, John Bateman, (title)
- This acreocracy, like all Welsh social groups, was deeply riven with profound internal divisions.2005, Russell Davies, Hope and Heartbreak, page 93:
2
The land owned by such people.
- We'd been two years on our Pedernales acreocracy, not far from Fredericksburg, when our neighbor had two horses stolen in broad daylight.2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 13: