Gerontocrat
//dʒəˈɹɒntəkɹat// noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A member of a gerontocracy; an aged leader, especially one clinging on to power or ruling only by virtue of age.
"In Poland, a so-called anti-Zionist urge proved that the Stalinist gerontocrats would stoop even to Hitlerite tactics to repress dissent and prolong their sterile and boring hold on power."
Example
More examples"In Poland, a so-called anti-Zionist urge proved that the Stalinist gerontocrats would stoop even to Hitlerite tactics to repress dissent and prolong their sterile and boring hold on power."
Etymology
From geronto- + -crat, after gerontocracy.
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