polyocracyn.
/ˌpɒlɪˈɒkrəsi/, U.S. /ˌpɑliˈɑkrəsi/ With the. A section of the establishment characterized by progressive, esp. left-wing, politics and social activism, and supposed to consist typically of people educated at or associated with polytechnics.
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1975 K. Waterhouse in Daily Mirror 23 Oct. 12/5 The Polyocracy... Education:..more likely polytechnic or similar. Job: Teacher, social worker, writer, artist.
1984 Spectator 1 Sept. 13/2 The newspaper relies for much of its readership..on what has been called the polyocracy, the new establishment of teachers, social workers..and almost everyone in the bureaucracies of local government.
1994 Sunday Times (Nexis) 20 Mar. What was revealing was the reaction of the educational polyocracy that ought never to have survived the 1960s and which continues to hold the entire country hostage to a discredited educational ideology.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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