Meaning

An advocate of technocracy..

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1. An advocate of technocracy.
2. An expert in some technology, especially one in a managerial or administrative role.
3. A person who makes decisions based solely on technical information and not personal or public opinion.

Example Sentences

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

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?

[Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney]’s been able to sell himself as a no-nonsense technocrat who knows how to steer a crisis.

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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