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MERITOCRACY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The belief that rulers should be chosen for their superior abilities and not because of their wealth or birth
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("meritocracy" is a kind of...):
ideology; political orientation; political theory (an orientation that characterizes the thinking of a group or nation)
Derivation:
meritocratic (relating to or characteristic of a meritocracy)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A form of social system in which power goes to those with superior intellects
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("meritocracy" is a kind of...):
social organisation; social organization; social structure; social system; structure (the people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships)
Derivation:
meritocratic (relating to or characteristic of a meritocracy)
