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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
technocracy is a noun meaning "a form of government in which scientists and technical experts are in control". It carries one recorded sense.
a form of government in which scientists and technical experts are in control
“technocracy was described as that society in which those who govern justify themselves by appeal to technical experts who justify themselves by appeal to scientific forms of knowledge”
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 technocracy come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.