Dictionary

technocracy en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /tɛkˈnɒkɹəsi/
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Etymology

From techno- (“technical”, “technicians”) + -cracy (“rule by”), attributed to W.H. Smyth.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) A system of governance where people who are skilled or proficient govern in their respective areas of expertise.
   • When scientific imagination and knowledge of Nature's Laws are substituted in our economics for chance, mystery, and magic;[…] when this economic childish irrationality is sanely substituted by organized Science, Technology, and specialized Skill co-ordinated in National Industrial Management, then will begin real civilization, the Age of Social Sanity, — Technocracy. 1919, William Henry Smyth, Technocracy, first, second and third series, published 1921, page 20:
   • Macron may be the best of the existing system, but his politics is located within the liberal-democratic coordinates of the enlightened technocracy. 2018 December 17, Slavoj Žižek, “The yellow vest protesters revolting against centrism mean well – but their left wing populism won’t change French politics”, in The Independent:

Forms

Relateds

technocratic · technocrat

Translations (40)

eo teĥnokratio (a system of governance where people who are skilled or proficient govern in their respective areas of expertise) · de Technokratie (a system of governance where people who are skilled or proficient govern in their respective areas of expertise) · ko 기술 관료정치 (a system of governance where people who are skilled or proficient govern in their respective areas of expertise) · ko 테크노크라시 (a system of governance where people who are skilled or proficient govern in their respective areas of expertise) · id teknokrasi (a system of governance where people who are skilled or proficient govern in their respective areas of expertise) · es tecnocracia (a system of governance where people who are skilled or proficient govern in their respective areas of expertise) · gl tecnocracia (a system of governance where people who are skilled or proficient govern in their respective areas of expertise) · fi teknokratia (a system of governance where people who are skilled or proficient govern in their respective areas of expertise) · pl technokracja (a system of governance where people who are skilled or proficient govern in their respective areas of expertise) · eo teknokratio (a system of governance where people who are skilled or proficient govern in their respective areas of expertise) · ms teknokrasi (a system of governance where people who are skilled or proficient govern in their respective areas of expertise) · cmn 專家統治 /专家统治 (a system of governance where people who are skilled or proficient govern in their respective areas of expertise) · it tecnocrazia (a system of governance where people who are skilled or proficient govern in their respective areas of expertise) · pt tecnocracia (a system of governance where people who are skilled or proficient govern in their respective areas of expertise) · hu technokrácia (a system of governance where people who are skilled or proficient govern in their respective areas of expertise) · uk технокра́тія (a system of governance where people who are skilled or proficient govern in their respective areas of expertise) · vi kĩ trị (a system of governance where people who are skilled or proficient govern in their respective areas of expertise) · be тэхнакра́тыя (a system of governance where people who are skilled or proficient govern in their respective areas of expertise) · is tækniveldi (a system of governance where people who are skilled or proficient govern in their respective areas of expertise) · nl technocratie (a system of governance where people who are skilled or proficient govern in their respective areas of expertise) · lt technokratija (a system of governance where people who are skilled or proficient govern in their respective areas of expertise) · tr teknokrasi (a system of governance where people who are skilled or proficient govern in their respective areas of expertise) · vi kỹ trị (a system of governance where people who are skilled or proficient govern in their respective areas of expertise) · ca tecnocràcia (a system of governance where people who are skilled or proficient govern in their respective areas of expertise) · sw teknokrasia (a system of governance where people who are skilled or proficient govern in their respective areas of expertise) · cy technocratiaeth (a system of governance where people who are skilled or proficient govern in their respective areas of expertise) · ka ტექნოკრატია (a system of governance where people who are skilled or proficient govern in their respective areas of expertise) · da teknokrati (a system of governance where people who are skilled or proficient govern in their respective areas of expertise) · ro tehnocrație (a system of governance where people who are skilled or proficient govern in their respective areas of expertise) · pa ਤਕਨੀਕੀਰਾਜ (a system of governance where people who are skilled or proficient govern in their respective areas of expertise) · el τεχνοκρατία (a system of governance where people who are skilled or proficient govern in their respective areas of expertise) · bg технокра́ция (a system of governance where people who are skilled or proficient govern in their respective areas of expertise) · fr technocratie (a system of governance where people who are skilled or proficient govern in their respective areas of expertise) · mk технократија (a system of governance where people who are skilled or proficient govern in their respective areas of expertise) · ast teunocracia (a system of governance where people who are skilled or proficient govern in their respective areas of expertise) · ru технокра́тия (a system of governance where people who are skilled or proficient govern in their respective areas of expertise) · ga teicnealathas (a system of governance where people who are skilled or proficient govern in their respective areas of expertise) · cs technokracie (a system of governance where people who are skilled or proficient govern in their respective areas of expertise) · lv tehnokrātija (a system of governance where people who are skilled or proficient govern in their respective areas of expertise) · sv teknokrati (a system of governance where people who are skilled or proficient govern in their respective areas of expertise)