Meritocratic

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Pertaining to a meritocracy.

    "Sixty years on from Young’s book, a pure product of meritocratic training has emerged to write what he hopes will be the epitaph for his class."

Adjective
  1. 1
    relating to or characteristic of a meritocracy wordnet

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"Sixty years on from Young’s book, a pure product of meritocratic training has emerged to write what he hopes will be the epitaph for his class."

Etymology

From merit + -o- + -cratic or meritocrat + -ic.

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