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diversicrat en · NOUN

Etymology

From diversity + -crat.

Meanings

  1. An administrator who is hired in order to meet an organization's goals for maintaining diversity.
    • Instead, we live in the age of diversiphile students, diversidact professors and diversicrat college administrators. 2003, Peter Wood, Diversity: The Invention of a Concept, page 228:
    • She was a diversicrat—a booming industry in Eloi America. 2012, Mark Steyn, After America: Get Ready for Armageddon, page 155:
    • As a sociopolitical movement, diversity spawns the creation of “diversiphiles” (“professional multiculturalists” who appear to be obsessed with the aggressive promotion and dissemination of diversity ideology) and “diversicrats” (administrators in business, government, and/or academia hired specifically to regulate and enforce diversity quotas, goals, and timetables; Woods, 2003). 2013, Craig L. Frisby, Meeting the Psychoeducational Needs of Minority Students:

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