meritocracy

Word family nounmeritocracymeritocratmeritoriousnessmeritadjectivemeritocraticmeritoriousadverbmeritoriously

Related topics: Policies, Sociology

mer·i·toc·ra·cy /ˌmerəˈtɒkrəsi $ -ˈtɑː-/ noun (plural meritocracies)

1. PPPSS[countableC] a social system that gives the greatest power and highest social positions to people with the most ability 精英管理（制度），贤能统治

2. the meritocracy PPGSSthe people who have power in a meritocracy 精英管理阶层，贤能统治者 → aristocracy

—meritocratic /ˌmerətəˈkrætɪk◂/ adjectiveadj

Examples from the Corpus

meritocracy• However, in a meritocracy, those at the bottom are clearly inferior.• In a meritocracy, talent and ability are efficiently syphoned out of the lower strata.• He was evidence that the trading floor was a meritocracy.• In the collaborative meritocracy, people who are talented enough and committed enough are rightly seen as indispensable.• The institutional racism model thus overlaps with an equal opportunities model which demands self-conscious meritocracy in spirit and in procedures.• But it was possible to turn the critique of meritocracy against the schools themselves.• Secondly it is a declaration that meritocracy does not operate by default.• The meritocracy that reigned among students thus functioned hardly at all within the faculty.

From Longman Business Dictionary

meritocracymer·i·toc·ra·cy /ˌmerəˈtɒkrəsi-ˈtɑː-/ noun (plural meritocracies) [countableC]

a social system that gives the greatest power and highest social positions to people with the most ability

Everyone wanted to belong to the new meritocracy, based not on birth but on talent and achievement.

单词	meritocracy
释义	meritocracy Word family nounmeritocracymeritocratmeritoriousnessmeritadjectivemeritocraticmeritoriousadverbmeritoriously Related topics: Policies, Sociology mer·i·toc·ra·cy /ˌmerəˈtɒkrəsi $ -ˈtɑː-/ noun (plural meritocracies) 1. PPPSS[countableC] a social system that gives the greatest power and highest social positions to people with the most ability 精英管理（制度），贤能统治 2. the meritocracy PPGSSthe people who have power in a meritocracy 精英管理阶层，贤能统治者 → aristocracy —meritocratic /ˌmerətəˈkrætɪk◂/ adjectiveadj Examples from the Corpus meritocracy• However, in a meritocracy, those at the bottom are clearly inferior.• In a meritocracy, talent and ability are efficiently syphoned out of the lower strata.• He was evidence that the trading floor was a meritocracy.• In the collaborative meritocracy, people who are talented enough and committed enough are rightly seen as indispensable.• The institutional racism model thus overlaps with an equal opportunities model which demands self-conscious meritocracy in spirit and in procedures.• But it was possible to turn the critique of meritocracy against the schools themselves.• Secondly it is a declaration that meritocracy does not operate by default.• The meritocracy that reigned among students thus functioned hardly at all within the faculty. From Longman Business Dictionary meritocracymer·i·toc·ra·cy /ˌmerəˈtɒkrəsi-ˈtɑː-/ noun (plural meritocracies) [countableC] a social system that gives the greatest power and highest social positions to people with the most ability Everyone wanted to belong to the new meritocracy, based not on birth but on talent and achievement.
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