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- noun Plural form of
technocrat .
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Examples
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Their disdain for the "technocrats" is good-enough motive for Barry to steal armor and a d-hopper device and try to protect his neighborhood.
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If the alternative to technocrats is populism, then the real question is whether technocratic errors are more persistent than populist errors.
What's Wrong With DeLong?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The federal government's presence, steered by myopic technocrats, is too dominant.
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However, bankers called the technocrats 'bluff and proceeded to lend with gusto.
China's Credit Boom Victor C. Shih 2008
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And this last exit appeared to them in the shape of two new prime ministers in Greece and Italy, both of them so-called technocrats who, unlike Messrs Papandreou and Berlusconi, know how to concentrate the minds of their people "when the day of execution is near", as Dr Johnson so admirably put it.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Thomas Kielinger 2011
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Under the Fatah-Hamas accord, a transitional cabinet of "technocrats" - not card-carrying members of either Fatah or Hamas - is to take over the PA pending new elections.
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Under the Fatah-Hamas accord, a transitional cabinet of "technocrats" - not card-carrying members of either Fatah or Hamas - is to take over the PA pending new elections.
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The retired generals, for example, praised the choice of Marouf al-Bakhit as the new prime minister because he is a military man like them instead of a businessman like ousted prime minister Samir Rifai, whom they viewed as one of the so-called technocrats out of sync with their vision for the country.
Thestar.com - Home Page Joanna Smith 2011
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Unmentioned by the technocrats were the problems of
GlobalResearch.ca 2010
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Especially the large family owned conglomerates or 'grupos industriales' with educated movers and shakers ( 'technocrats' like Zedillo etc.) and privileged access to financial and political markets.
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Technocrats believed that scientists and engineers should rule.
How Elon Musk Went from Superhero to Supervillain | The New Yorker Condé Nast 2023
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