Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who is skilled in technics, or in the practical arts.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One skilled in technics or in one or more of the practical arts.
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- noun One skilled in
technics or in thepractical arts.
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Examples
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The first cynicism argues that the ANC government is creating a 'technicist' approach to governance, meaning that all policy is reduced to technical jargon and bureaucratic reasoning.
CONTENTS: 2006
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The first cynicism argues that the ANC government is creating a 'technicist' approach to governance, meaning that all policy is reduced to technical jargon and bureaucratic reasoning.
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Strategies that imply a technicist approach, that simply await delivery from above, will surely not come to terms with the complex and changing structures of marginalisation, exclusion and power in South Africa.
CONTENTS 2007
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Strategies that imply a technicist approach, that simply await delivery from above, will surely not come to terms with the complex and changing structures of marginalisation, exclusion and power in South Africa.
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Over the past three years, policy formation and implementation became extremely technicist in character.
Editorial 1997
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In brief, Belasco is the technicist; Frohman was the humanitarian.
Charles Frohman: Manager and Man Daniel Frohman 1895
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Each trade required in the building was to be represented by a master-tradesman of that denomination, who should stand responsible for his own section of labour, and for no other, Somerset himself as chief technicist working out his designs on the spot.
A Laodicean : a Story of To-day Thomas Hardy 1884
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In Europe and North America, the "us" of the Church urges people to leave behind the selfish and technicist mentality, to advance the common good and to show respect for the persons who are most defenceless, starting with the unborn.
Latest Articles 2009
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Slide 40: Theories of the firm and their ethical implications (continued) x Issue Classical liberal economic Pluralist (A and B) Corporatist Critical Role of Portrayed as functionalist, technicist Type A. Managers come into direct The structures of organisations Complex, with competing and managers and value neutral. contact with specific sectional reflect a formal involvement of sometimes / often mutually exclusive interest groups, which should affect employee representatives, non - interests and demands being required decision making.
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"technical or technicist things," because their collaborative work reshaping educational institutions was about "capacities not simply technical skills."
virtualpolitik 2010
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