Technocrat
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈtɛknə(ʊ)kɹat/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Technocrat is a noun meaning An advocate of technocracy.
Meaning
An advocate of technocracy.
More Meanings
- An expert in some technology, especially one in a managerial or administrative role.
- A person who makes decisions based solely on technical information and not personal or public opinion.
Example Sentences
[Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney]’s been able to sell himself as a no-nonsense technocrat who knows how to steer a crisis.
Another by now trusted technocrat, d'Aguesseau, returned as Chancellor, initiating down to his death in 1751 landmark judicial reforms.
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.
Would the site’s community of decentralized, uncompensated editors continue to govern it according to its principles of openness, transparency, and neutrality, or would a handful of highly paid NGO technocrats re-orient Wikipedia toward endorsing and promoting the ever-shifting currents of the Western elite social justice regime?
Word Forms
- technocrats
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include technocratic, technocratism, technocratization, technofeudalist, technopositivist, technopopulist.
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