Technocrat

noun

noun ·3 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An advocate of technocracy.
  2. 2
    an advocate of technocracy wordnet
  3. 3
    An expert in some technology, especially one in a managerial or administrative role.

    "Another by now trusted technocrat, d'Aguesseau, returned as Chancellor, initiating down to his death in 1751 landmark judicial reforms."

  4. 4
    an expert who is a member of a highly skilled elite group wordnet
  5. 5
    A person who makes decisions based solely on technical information and not personal or public opinion.

    "We are technocrats who focus on efficiency. We get little training about the ends of economics, on the meaning of well-being—welfare economics has long since vanished from the curriculum—or on what philosophers say about equality."

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"Another by now trusted technocrat, d'Aguesseau, returned as Chancellor, initiating down to his death in 1751 landmark judicial reforms."

Etymology

Back-formation from technocracy, equivalent to techno- + -crat.

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