Meritocracy
//mɛɹəˈtɑkɹəsi//
"Meritocracy" in a Sentence (6 examples)
If such a thing as meritocracy existed, it would be gone within a generation.
Meritocracy is a fairy tale.
Men like him prove the existence of all manner of privilege while disproving meritocracy.
As a small nation without natural resources, Singapore relies on education and meritocracy to develop its economy.
In Markovits’s telling, the rise of the meritocracy is a story of unintended consequences.
Its faculty has also been a factory of books taking differing positions on the merits and demerits of meritocracy and elite education.
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