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Government by scientific experts
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technocracy
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Absence of the human in daily transactions -- having been replaced by soulless rituals of technocracy , institutions, and state security. ▪ Politics, Lenin thought, could be replaced by technocracy . ▪ Shock learning can be seen ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in 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.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
technocracy \tech*noc"ra*cy\, n. government by technical specialists.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a form of government in which scientists and technical experts are in control
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Technocracy is an EP by Corrosion of Conformity . It was released in 1987 on Metal Blade Records , and re-released in 1992 on Relativity Records with four additional songs, including three demo versions of songs from the EP with bassist Mike Dean singing. ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1919, coined by W.H. Smyth as a name for a new system of government by technical experts, from techno- + -cracy .\n\nWilliam Henry Smyth, a distinguished engineer of Berkeley, California, wrote at the close of the war a series of thoughtful papers for the ...
Usage examples of technocracy.
As soon as Tango had informed him that Richardson, one of the architects, had disappeared and later been found dead, Aaron had known that the Technocracy had taken the bait he had set.
Nixon seemed to understand the antitechnocratic mood of his day, and also how technocracy was in opposition to America's older Jeffersonian tradition of local politics and democratic responsiveness.
It had read of so many styles of government used by other races and clans-autarchies and aristocracies, technocracies and democracies, syndicates and meritocracies.
It had read of so many styles of government used by other races and clans—autarchies and aristocracies, technocracies and democracies, syndicates and meritocracies.
But the Technocracy controlled the flow of Immortality, and cut it off at the least hint of trouble.
To transcend technocracy, we need not only to reach beyond our economic philistinism, but to open our minds to more distant futures, both probable and possible.
Usually, worlds based on one type of dictatorship or another, ranging from theocracies to technocracies, in few of which the ruling elite were actually elite—although when the politico-economic system had been originated, perhaps they had been.