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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
technocrat
noun
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▪ And the stereotype of him as a technocrat without feeling is just not true, Juppe has protested.
▪ Between 1974 and 1981, therefore, Gaullist and Giscardian politicians fashioned the broadcasting policies that technocrats and broadcasters were to implement.
▪ He thus emerged as champion of the free market, appointing western-educated technocrats as ministers.
▪ In fact, the technocrats of land drainage are heirs to one of the oldest forms of organized local government.
▪ Of the authoritarian technocrats or the powerless intellectuals?
▪ The country is currently run by a banker, Lamberto Dini, who leads a nonpolitical government of technocrats.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
technocrat

technocrat \tech"no*crat\, n.

  1. a technical specialist exercising governmental or managerial authority.

  2. a proponent of technocracy. [PJC] -- technocratic, a.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
technocrat

1932, back-formation from technocracy. Related: Technocratic.

Wiktionary
technocrat

n. 1 An advocate of technocracy. 2 An expert in some technology, especially one in a managerial or administrative role. 3 An individual who makes decisions based solely on technical information and not personal or public opinion.

WordNet
technocrat
  1. n. an expert who is a member of a highly skilled elite group

  2. an advocate of technocracy

Wikipedia
Technocrat (comics)

Technocrat is a superhero in the DC Comics and a former member of the Outsiders. His first appearance was in Outsiders Alpha v2, #1 (November 1993). written by Mike W. Barr and drawn by Paul Pelletier.

Usage examples of "technocrat".

Jews, deracinated liberals, technocrats and aliens to double the population of the capital city within a few years.

Instead of cars, we would become manufacturers of hamburger platters and Greek salads, industrialists of spanikopita and grilled cheese sandwiches, technocrats of rice pudding and banana cream pie.

The basement is the natural place for the bar, where in the late afternoon worm technocrats -- nowadays they are called potential leaders -- fasten themselves to bar stools.

Instead, former worm technocrats, now vainglorious public speakers, who in calm or windy weather sound off about German Ability.

Western-educated technocrats and intellectuals to Europe had left Algeria with no alternative political outlets for expression and organization.

From the point of view of admittedly privileged white male technocrats such as Randy Waterhouse and his ancestors, the Palouse was like one big live-in laboratory for nonlinear aerodynamics and chaos theory.

In its City Hall, as in a thousand city halls all over the high-technology nations, technocrats dash, firebucket in fist, from one conflagration to another without the least semblance of a coherent plan or policy for the urban future.

It could even have happened to the obnoxious imperialist fuckwits from Orion's Law or the quiet enlightened muslim technocrats of Bohraj.

By calling attention to the growing ineptitudes of the technocrats and by explicitly challenging not merely the means, but the very goals of industrial society, today's young radicals do us all a great service.

They weren't real people, just technocrats and objectivists and fascists and like that.

Miles liked Aragones' office, crammed with the sort of clutter of info disks, charts, and journal-flimsie offprints that indicated a technocrat who thought deeply and continuously about what he was doing.

A classic grey man, a war veteran, a technocrat with a high security clearance and any number of high-powered connections.