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English

Noun

technocrat (plural technocrats)

• An advocate of technocracy.
• An expert in some technology, especially one in a managerial or administrative role.
  • ✤ Another by now trusted technocrat, d’Aguesseau, returned as Chancellor, initiating down to his death in 1751 landmark judicial reforms.¹
  • ✤ 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?²
  • ✤ [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.
  • ✤ 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.⁴

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈtɛknə(ʊ)kɹat/
• Audio (Southern England): 🔊

Printed 2026-06-28.

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Footnotes

1. 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 87: ↩

2. 2024 August 5, Ashley Rindsberg, “How the Regime Captured Wikipedia”, in Pirate Wires ‎${}^{[1]}$, archived from the original on 16 January 2025: ↩

3. 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: ↩

4. 2024 March, Angus Deaton, “Rethinking My Economics”, in F&D Magazine ‎${}^{[3]}$, archived from the original on 14 August 2024: ↩