Telocratic
adj, name
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Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Pertaining to a governing set of rules or goals.
"Yet it is abundantly clear that in practice, if not always in rhetoric, most contemporary Western governments have operated with telocratic assumptions."
- 2 Relating to the final interglacial stage, when temperatures are beginning to fall and soils begin to disappear.
"Carpinus and Abies expanded in the telocratic phase, Carpinus before Abies in the west, the two simultaneously in eastern Europe."
Proper Noun
- 1 The final interglacial stage, when temperatures are beginning to fall and soils begin to disappear.
"Turner and West ( 1968 ) suggest that the phases of an interglacial period (cryocratic, protocratic , mesocratic , telocratic ) be considered as cenozones."
Example
More examples"Yet it is abundantly clear that in practice, if not always in rhetoric, most contemporary Western governments have operated with telocratic assumptions."
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