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say it: meh-ri-TAW-kruh-see
meritocracy is a noun meaning "a form of social system in which power goes to those with superior intellects". It carries 2 recorded senses.
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
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for meritocracy come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.