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gerontocracy

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12 lettersPronunciation /ˌdʒɛɹənˈtɒkɹəsi/Part of speech nounSorted accegnoorrtyStarts with GEnds with Y0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a political system governed by old men

Word origin

From geronto- + -cracy, from Ancient Greek.

Used in a sentence

  • Near-synonyms: senilocracy, graocracy (archaic)
  • It would come as no surprise to find that optimum science policy is apt to be developed neither by gerontocracy nor by juvenocracy but, like the community of scientists itself, by age-diversified meritocracy.
  • Young people who are close to writing off the Democratic Party as a dinosaur, as a gerontocracy of prudish abuelos who gave birth by immaculate conception, may be in for a pleasant surprise.

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