technocracy

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Scrabble points
23
Words With Friends
25
Letters
11
Pronunciation
/tɛkˈnɒkɹəsi/

Definition of technocracy

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)A system of governance where people who are skilled or proficient govern in their respective areas of expertise.
    “When scientific imagination and knowledge of Nature's Laws are substituted in our economics for chance, mystery, and magic;[…] when this economic childish irrationality is sanely substituted by organized Science, Technology, and specialized Skill co-ordinated in National Industrial Management, then will begin real civilization, the Age of Social Sanity, — Technocracy.”
    “Macron may be the best of the existing system, but his politics is located within the liberal-democratic coordinates of the enlightened technocracy.”

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Etymology

From techno- (“technical”, “technicians”) + -cracy (“rule by”), attributed to W.H. Smyth.

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