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Definitions
the belief that rulers should be chosen for their superior abilities and not because of their wealth or birth
Word origin
From merit + -o- + -cracy, coined by British sociologist Alan Fox in 1956 in an article in Socialist Commentary from May 1956, used as a derisive term, and popularized by British sociologist Michael Young, Baron Young of Dartington in his 1958 book The Rise of the Meritocracy.
Used in a sentence
“As a small nation without natural resources, Singapore relies on education and meritocracy to develop its economy.”
“In Markovits’s telling, the rise of the meritocracy is a story of unintended consequences.”
“Its faculty has also been a factory of books taking differing positions on the merits and demerits of meritocracy and elite education.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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