technocrat — English Dictionary

Noun

1. An advocate of technocracy.

2. An expert in some technology, especially one in a managerial or administrative role.

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   Another by now trusted technocrat, d'Aguesseau, returned as Chancellor, initiating down to his death in 1751 landmark judicial reforms.

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   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?

   [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.

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   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.

Noun

1. an expert who is a member of a highly skilled elite group

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   expert

2. an advocate of technocracy

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