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  • n  the gentry who own land (considered as a class)

  • Arias' economic reforms were dimly viewed by the Donmatias squirearchy.
  • Powell has never got on well with the "squirearchy" that rules Conservative politics.
  • He is also a top man in the British Foreign Office hierarchy and a solid man in his country's squirearchy.

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