technocratとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈtɛknə(ʊ)kɹat/

名詞

technocrat (plural technocrats)

1. An advocate of technocracy.
2. An expert in some technology, especially one in a managerial or administrative role.
   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 87:

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

   • 2024 August 5, Ashley Rindsberg, “How the Regime Captured Wikipedia”, in Pirate Wires‎, archived from the original on 16 January 2025:

     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?

   • 2025 April 2, Sara Miller Llana, “Who is Mark Carney? Maybe just who Canada wants to face off against Trump.”, in The Christian Science Monitor‎, archived from the original on 3 April 2025:

     [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.
   • 2024 March, Angus Deaton, “Rethinking My Economics”, in F&D Magazine‎:

     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.

関連する語

• technocracy
• technocratic

Further reading

• technocrat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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