: of, relating to, or suggestive of a technocrat or a technocracy

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The cease-fire created a technocratic committee to temporarily govern Gaza but the body has not yet entered the territory. Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 10 July 2026 The board stressed in a statement on X that the technocratic committee must control all weapons in Gaza, as laid out in the ceasefire agreement. Wafaa Shurafa, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026 Ismail al-Thwabta, the head of the Hamas’ Government Media Office (GMO), said the militant group is ready to turn over governance to the Palestinian technocratic committee that’s meant to lead the enclave under the agreement. Oren Liebermann, CNN Money, 6 July 2026 Horkheimer and Adorno had concluded that advanced capitalism, far from being a technocratic monolith, had an inherent tendency toward chaos and madness. Alex Ross, New Yorker, 15 June 2026 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 13 Jul. 2026.

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