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inheritocrat en · NOUN

Etymology

From inherit + -o- + -crat.

Meanings

1. One who benefits from inherited wealth.
   • Is a child with a loving family that happens to be poor worse off than the child of barely-functioning inheritocrats who want as little as possible to do with their children (“emotionally distant” is whitewashing things)? 2017 March 30, ex804, Greater Greater Washington:
   • If Tom was an inheritocrat, I spoke to many meritocrats, those who had made it in modern Britain with little parental help, but this came with much resentment. 2024 November 17, Eliza Filby, “Bank of Mum and Dad: why we all now live in an ‘inheritocracy’”, in The Observer, →ISSN:

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