Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A government or social system controlled by technicians, especially scientists and technical experts.
Wiktionary
- n. A system of governance where people who are skilled or proficient govern in their respective areas of expertise. A type of meritocracy based on people's ability and knowledge in a given area.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. government by technical specialists.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a form of government in which scientists and technical experts are in control
Etymologies
- techno- (“technical”, “technicians”) + -cracy (“rule by”) (Wiktionary)
- Greek tekhnē, skill; see technical + -cracy. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“This technocracy is about as workable as the theocracy of Iran.”
“The argument I was addressing was that technocracy is incompetent.”
“So there's no doubt that machinery, especially in the age that I call a technocracy, made life better according to values that I think most of us would accept.”
“And there lies the error in the idea of technocracy in its more general meaning, “rule by experts.””
“What one can say with certainty is that the new generation will not come from the ranks of former guerrillas, but from the Revolutionary Armed Forces and the emerging "technocracy" - those whom Raul has been steadily appointing to government in recent years.”
“It breeds a sort of conflation of cynicism and elitism, or in other words technocracy.”
“If Mr. McCay thinks that the image of an enormous mechanical dragon devouring a city is going to make me think the idea of technocracy is bad, he is sorely mistaken.”
“Condescension toward volunteers derives from what can be called technocracy, a mode of domination that has spread throughout our society like a silent civic disease.”
“It was called technocracy, which was a theory or movement advocating management and control of the economy, government and social system by technological experts.”
“In short, the health care sciences ought to work to foster an ethic of patient care that resists technocracy, that is, an ethic that will be respectful of and responsible for patient diversity for the good life”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘technocracy’.
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science fact or fiction
pretty open-ended here—terms, ideas, lingo, technologies and phenomena (real or postulated) that are, were, should be or could be used in speculative fiction
tachyon, mecha, dropship, wetware, meatspace, nanobot, cloned meat, asteroid mining, hyperdrive, wormhole, parallel universe, distributed intel... and 464 more...
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from phrontistery.info
tabacosis, tabanid, tabaret, tabati?re, tabby, tabefaction, tabellary, tabellion, tabernacle, tabernacular, tabescent, tabific and 930 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Forms of government
tyranny, tribal, totalitarianism, timocracy, theocracy, thallassocracy, cyberocracy, technocracy, sociocracy, socialist state, republic, puppet state and 37 more...
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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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mager's Words
enigmatic, pragmatic, pulchritudinous, nincompoop, annihilation, sociality, entailment, acrosome, egalitarian, culture, technocracy, shenanigan and 541 more...
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Hiroe's Words
facetious, bardic, twatwaffle, cattywampus, splendiferous, zomg, merf, fwaa, fnord, tortify, schwiz, blort and 225 more...
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bertilak's Words
antidisestablishm..., feldercarb, wainscoting, eleemosynary, oxymoron, fuliginous, libration, lammergeier, saxifrage, ichor, lambent, smaragdine and 414 more...
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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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phuzzy's Words
entomophagan, corpuscle, mellifluence, haberdasher, milliner, tow, spartan, bdellotomy, trepan, trephine, congenial, courtly and 208 more...
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Sat Vocabulary List
abandon, abash, abate, abjure, ablution, abnegate, abominable, aboriginal, abortive, abrade, abridge, abrogate and 2155 more...
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techno-
art; science; skill
technocracy, technology, technological, technochemistry, pyrotechny, pyrotechnics, technical, techno, technician
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_mark's list
Words I like!
( personal list, favorite words, randomness )psy, nanobot, success, smack, vibration, microcosmic, springgraph, marksmanship, estranged, homoerotic, flex, fiasco and 1695 more...
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Wikipedia's List of Government Types
anarchy, aristocracy, authoritarianism, autocracy, confederation, corporatocracy, consociationalism, demarchy, democracy, despotism, dictatorship, epistemocracy and 36 more...
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list-ocracy
and some -archy ones, too.
technocracy, plutocracy, ochlocracy, theocracy, kakistocracy, stratocracy, democracy, autocracy, aristocracy, pantisocracy, timocracy, bureaucracy and 30 more...
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Crazy "-Cracy"
Words that end in the suffix "-cracy", which therefore means that the word represents a form of government.
kakistocracy, meritocracy, gynecocracy, hagiocracy, corporatocracy, timocracy, gerontocracy, ethnocracy, sociocracy, kritocracy, thalassocracy, ochlocracy and 64 more...
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