meritocrat

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An advocate of meritocracy.
  2. A person who has authority allegedly based on ability.
    — The state uses universal testing to identify and elevate meritocrats, leaving most of England’s citizens poor and demoralized, without even a legitimate grievance, since, after all, who could argue that the wise should not rule?

词形变化

meritocrats plural

词汇关系

衍生词
meritocratism

词源

Etymology tree
English merit
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.
Latin -o-bor.
English -o-
Proto-Indo-European *kret-
Ancient Greek κρᾰ́τος (krắtos)bor.
English -crat
English meritocrat
From merit + -o- + -crat.
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