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Government or administration dominated by technical experts and specialized expertise.
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- scientific technocracy
- technocratic rule
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The colony became a technocracy after the emergency.
The technocracy gave engineers authority over public policy.
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Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Singular technocracy; plural technocracies. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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