Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A government or social system controlled by technicians, especially scientists and technical experts.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun government by technical specialists.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A system of
governance where people who are skilled or proficient govern in their respective areas of expertise. A type ofmeritocracy based on people's ability and knowledge in a given area.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a form of government in which scientists and technical experts are in control
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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This technocracy is about as workable as the theocracy of Iran.
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The argument I was addressing was that technocracy is incompetent.
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The argument I was addressing was that technocracy is incompetent.
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The argument I was addressing was that technocracy is incompetent.
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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.
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And there lies the error in the idea of technocracy in its more general meaning, “rule by experts.”
Technocracy James Killus 2008
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And there lies the error in the idea of technocracy in its more general meaning, “rule by experts.”
Archive 2008-06-01 James Killus 2008
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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.
BBC News - Home 2011
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It breeds a sort of conflation of cynicism and elitism, or in other words technocracy.
digg.com: Top News 2011
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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.
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