technocrat
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Back-formation from technocracy, equivalent to techno- + -crat.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈtɛknə(ʊ)kɹat/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]technocrat (plural technocrats)
- An advocate of technocracy.
- An expert in some technology, especially one in a managerial or administrative role.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 87:
- Another by now trusted technocrat, d'Aguesseau, returned as Chancellor, initiating down to his death in 1751 landmark judicial reforms.
- 2024 August 5, Ashley Rindsberg, “How the Regime Captured Wikipedia”, in Pirate Wires[1], archived from the original on 16 January 2025:
- 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?
- 2025 April 2, Sara Miller Llana, “Who is Mark Carney? Maybe just who Canada wants to face off against Trump.”, in The Christian Science Monitor[2], archived from the original on 3 April 2025:
- [Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney]’s been able to sell himself as a no-nonsense technocrat who knows how to steer a crisis.
- A person who makes decisions based solely on technical information and not personal or public opinion.
- 2024 March, Angus Deaton, “Rethinking My Economics”, in F&D Magazine[3], archived from the original on 14 August 2024:
- 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.
Derived terms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]advocate of technocracy
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Further reading
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technocrat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
