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/mˌɛɹɪtˈɒkɹəsi/
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[ US /mɛɹɪˈtɔkɹəsi/ ]
[ US /mɛɹɪˈtɔkɹəsi/ ]
NOUN
- a form of social system in which power goes to those with superior intellects
- the belief that rulers should be chosen for their superior abilities and not because of their wealth or birth
How To Use meritocracy In A Sentence
- Its ethnically blind military meritocracy, its nurturing concern for the welfare of officers and enlisted men alike, and its jungle-warfare school in Brunei are second to none. How We Would Fight China
- In the collaborative meritocracy, people who are talented enough and committed enough are rightly seen as indispensable.
- They believe on the whole in individualism rather than tribalism, national patriotism rather than ethnic loyalty, meritocracy rather than nepotism, nuclear families rather than extended clans, law and fair play rather than privilege, corporations of strangers rather than mafias of relatives, and true love rather than the arranged marriages necessary to keep ethnic categories clear-cut. The Volokh Conspiracy » So a Libertarian and a Liberal Walk into a Bar
- ‘You have no choice but to have a complete meritocracy and have the competition of the best ideas, best talents and the best people regardless of their backgrounds,’ Yang said.
- While I'd seen my fair share of mediocre upper middle-class twits leapfrog their contemporaries, I really believed that the results-driven media game was largely a meritocracy.
- Social mobility will therefore be high during the transition period to a meritocracy and as society becomes more equal.
- The institutional racism model thus overlaps with an equal opportunities model which demands self-conscious meritocracy in spirit and in procedures.
- He did his best, offering equal citizenship, collective solidarity, meritocracy and mutual respect as his core Party values.
- ‘The industry became more of a meritocracy,’ says Kurt Cerulli of Boston's Cerulli Associates Inc.
- The founder of the National Outdoor Leadership School, proposed a meritocracy, giving priority to those best educated in wilderness skills.