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''technocrat'' ▫ᴱᴺ｜Definition｜1st｜20260331180822-00-⌔
technocrat - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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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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Link to original Footnotes
2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 87: ↩
2024 August 5, Ashley Rindsberg, “How the Regime Captured Wikipedia”, in Pirate Wires , archived from the original on 16 January 2025: ↩
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 , archived from the original on 3 April 2025: ↩
2024 March, Angus Deaton, “Rethinking My Economics”, in F&D Magazine , archived from the original on 14 August 2024: ↩
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