Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. business An organizational system designed to be flexible and responsive to the needs of the moment rather than excessively bureaucratic.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an organization with little or no structure
Etymologies
- ad hoc + -cracy (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Bureaucracy gets pushed aside by so-called "adhocracy," executive power/one-man shows flourish, with institutional checks and balances flouted.”
The Huffington Post: Janine R. Wedel: Shadow Elite: WikiLeaks: Irresponsible or Indispensable?
“In that alone, she says that the UN under Ban's leadership has seen "decline over a broad scale - from small things to more important" … "no more any congruity between responsibility and authority" … and calls today's UN an "adhocracy" in which "disintegrated and ill thought through”
“Western leaders, with some Arab leaders involved as well, had cobbled together a new adhocracy to counter, if not remove, a notorious monster attacking his people and threatening to send the "Arab spring" back into bloody winter.”
“This, then, is the focus, as it were, of Obama's nascent doctrine, and the emerging international adhocracy on Libya, a blend of morality and pragmatism.”
“It was an adhocracy, as I've called it, but no single entity to ensure that U.S. dollars are well spent to help the Iraqis get on their feet.”
“The future of government is to provide tools for empowerment, not to sit back and hope that laissez-faire adhocracy will suffice.”
“The NWG was an adhocracy of intensely creative, sleep-deprived, idiosyncratic, well-meaning computer geniuses.”
“In her doctoral dissertation, Langley (1986) looked carefully at the roles of planning as well as analysis in three organizations—one professional (a hospital), one machine, and one adhocracy.”
“Moreover, conditions in adhocracy can be so complex and can change so rapidly that there tends to be an insatiable appetite for strategic analysis, according to Langley 1986, who summarized her findings on the three forms of organization as follows:”
“Finally, in an adhocracy, the wide participation of individuals in decisions and the ambiguity surrounding formal authority may generate even greater uses of formal analysis for communication purposes especially positioning and direct persuasion.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘adhocracy’.
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Fruits of Linguistic Invention
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Rare Words - A
Not just rare words, but thousands of RARE WORDS WITH DEFINITIONS.
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Buzzwords of our time
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from phrontistery.info
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Portmanteaux
Words formed by joining two others and combining their meanings.
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There's a word for it
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My daily Wordsheets
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Forms of Government
A handful of -ocracies.
adhocracy, androcracy, aristocracy, autocracy, cleptocracy, corpocracy, democracy, ethnocracy, gerontocracy, gynecocracy, gyneocracy, gynocracy and 31 more...
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slumry's Words
cattywampus, ingratiate, lackadaisical, exactitude, exfoliate, fulminate, circumnavigation, circuitous, debride, sidle, sequester, chicory and 1002 more...
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Transhumanity
Cribbed from Transhumanist Terminology at aleph.se, which has definitions, and is itself based on the Lextropicon.
adhocracy, aeonomics, a-life, agoric system, ai, ai-complete, aleph, algernon, amortalist, arachniography, arch-anarchy, arcology and 333 more...
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Awesome Words, Part 1: Less Common
These are words that I have learnt over the years and want to remember
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Neologisms
exergaming, grok, dittography, adhocracy, bliss ninny, ringxiety, schadenfreudgeon, biometrics
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C. S. Bird – Grandiloquent Dictionary
All the words from the Grandiloquent Dictionary.
946 of these 2700 words do not yield any results in six different dictionaries, hence many of them might be misspellings.
More in...abacinate, abcedarian, abderian, ablegate, abligurition, ablutophobia, abnormous, acarophobia, acathasia, accipitrine, accidia, accubitus and 2690 more...
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stpeter's Words
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