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technocrat

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Etymology

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Back-formation from technocracy, equivalent to techno- +‎ -crat.

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technocrat (plural technocrats)

  1. An advocate of technocracy.
  2. 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 2025-01-16:
      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:
      [Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney]’s been able to sell himself as a no-nonsense technocrat who knows how to steer a crisis.
  3. A person who makes decisions based solely on technical information and not personal or public opinion.
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