technocrat
/ˈtɛknə(ʊ)kɹat/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.08 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An advocate of technocracy.
noun
An expert in some technology, especially one in a managerial or administrative role.
noun
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."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ˈtɛknə(ʊ)kɹat/