technocratic

adjective

tech·​no·​crat·​ic ˌtek-nə-ˈkra-tik How to pronounce technocratic (audio)
: of, relating to, or suggestive of a technocrat or a technocracy

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The best response to these developments is to face the contours of this brave new technocratic world head-on. Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025 This is a technocratic view of art’s purpose, one that reduces art to a type of soma for late capitalism’s weary workers, Apple’s dream employees on an eighteen-hour shift and counting. Michaëla De Lacaze Mohrmann, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2025 Many parts of American life—from our blandly technocratic education systems to wages and work patterns that leave workers feeling overstretched and desperate—reflect and encourage a society based on individual competition. Dan Perry, Newsweek, 17 Dec. 2024 That reduction was driven by regulators, but for entirely rational technocratic reasons. Felix Salmon, Axios, 11 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for technocratic 

Word History

Etymology

techno- + -cratic, after technocracy, technocrat

First Known Use

1932, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of technocratic was in 1932

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“Technocratic.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/technocratic. Accessed 24 Jan. 2025.

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