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TECHNOCRACY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does technocracy mean?
• TECHNOCRACY (noun)
The noun TECHNOCRACY has 1 sense:
1. a form of government in which scientists and technical experts are in control
Familiarity information: TECHNOCRACY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A form of government in which scientists and technical experts are in control
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Context example:
technocracy was described as that society in which those who govern justify themselves by appeal to technical experts who justify themselves by appeal to scientific forms of knowledge
Hypernyms ("technocracy" is a kind of...):
form of government; political system (the members of a social organization who are in power)
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