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Definition of gerontocracy in English: gerontocracynoun ˌdʒɛrənˈtɒkrəsiˌdʒɛrənˈtɑkrəsi 1A state, society, or group governed by old people. Example sentencesExamples - It's no surprise that American media organizations are gerontocracies.
- You quickly begin to feel that the country is the opposite of Britain: where we're obsessed by the youth of our leaders, Italy is determined to remain a gerontocracy.
- It is easy to depict them as a complacent gerontocracy immured in its certainties and unwilling to rethink the future.
- The retirement of this gerontocracy led to the so-called fifth generation of leaders now in charge of the Party and the country.
- This person could have represented our interests in the raving gerontocracy that is the city government.
- Some of your friends are amazed when you say this, but you reason that a gerontocracy can fashion the future for just so long.
- In contrast to India's gerontocracy, there is a worldwide trend for having young leaders.
- The current Court is nothing less than a gerontocracy.
- In the gerontocracy that was early America, the Puritans held that living to a ripe old age was a sign from above.
- If such longtime supporters abandoned ship, surely the gerontocracy in Hanoi was out of touch.
- The author was, of course, the first to depict a totalitarian gerontocracy.
- This society is a gerontocracy based on obedience to and respect for those who are older than oneself.
- This country's gerontocracy is not so much kinder and gentler as paralytic.
- If he succeeds, it would spell the end of the narrow-based gerontocracy that has dominated French political life for the last generation and could usher in real change.
- Workers will resent handing over their entire paycheques to fund the gerontocracy and then have to suffer through fogeyish easy listening classics on every radio station.
- 1.1mass noun Government based on rule by old people.
Example sentencesExamples - We have to admit that stubborn gerontocracy has been a major obstacle to reforming politics due to the aged politicians' obstinacy and narrow-mindedness.
- The old nobility dominated the officer corps and, since there was no retirement system, gerontocracy prevailed: seniority counted for everything.
- This has been referred to as gerontocracy, but it may be preferable to see it as an expression of a link with past generations.
Derivatives noun dʒɛˈrɒntəkratdʒəˈrɑn(t)əˌkræt A member or leader of a state, society, or group governed by old people. the village's aged leader is portrayed as a dictatorial gerontocrat Example sentencesExamples - It would not be difficult to characterise him as some grumpy gerontocrat with a giant chip on his shoulder.
- Inevitably, the gerontocrats began to die off: Suslov, Brezhnev, Andropov, Ustinov, and Chernenko.
- Don't forget that we gerontocrats who were reading it as it happened had to wait a month, at least, between issues.
adjective dʒɛˌrɒntəˈkratɪkdʒəˌrɑn(t)əˈkrædɪk Bureaucratization and gerontocratic tendencies characterized the party. Example sentencesExamples - It was the first movement of solidarity where the new young generation asked for their place in a society which had become gerontocratic.
- This topsy-turvy logic of children having the power to subordinate adults as their bona led to the gerontocratic reversals of the civil wars.
Origin Mid 19th century: from Greek gerōn, geront- 'old man' + -cracy. Rhymes adhocracy, aristocracy, autocracy, bureaucracy, democracy, gynaecocracy (US gynecocracy), hierocracy, hypocrisy, meritocracy, mobocracy, monocracy, plutocracy, technocracy, theocracy Definition of gerontocracy in US English: gerontocracynounˌjerənˈtäkrəsēˌdʒɛrənˈtɑkrəsi 1A state, society, or group governed by old people. Example sentencesExamples - In the gerontocracy that was early America, the Puritans held that living to a ripe old age was a sign from above.
- This society is a gerontocracy based on obedience to and respect for those who are older than oneself.
- It is easy to depict them as a complacent gerontocracy immured in its certainties and unwilling to rethink the future.
- If such longtime supporters abandoned ship, surely the gerontocracy in Hanoi was out of touch.
- The current Court is nothing less than a gerontocracy.
- If he succeeds, it would spell the end of the narrow-based gerontocracy that has dominated French political life for the last generation and could usher in real change.
- The author was, of course, the first to depict a totalitarian gerontocracy.
- It's no surprise that American media organizations are gerontocracies.
- The retirement of this gerontocracy led to the so-called fifth generation of leaders now in charge of the Party and the country.
- This person could have represented our interests in the raving gerontocracy that is the city government.
- You quickly begin to feel that the country is the opposite of Britain: where we're obsessed by the youth of our leaders, Italy is determined to remain a gerontocracy.
- In contrast to India's gerontocracy, there is a worldwide trend for having young leaders.
- This country's gerontocracy is not so much kinder and gentler as paralytic.
- Workers will resent handing over their entire paycheques to fund the gerontocracy and then have to suffer through fogeyish easy listening classics on every radio station.
- Some of your friends are amazed when you say this, but you reason that a gerontocracy can fashion the future for just so long.
- 1.1 Government based on rule by old people.
Example sentencesExamples - We have to admit that stubborn gerontocracy has been a major obstacle to reforming politics due to the aged politicians' obstinacy and narrow-mindedness.
- This has been referred to as gerontocracy, but it may be preferable to see it as an expression of a link with past generations.
- The old nobility dominated the officer corps and, since there was no retirement system, gerontocracy prevailed: seniority counted for everything.
Origin Mid 19th century: from Greek gerōn, geront- ‘old man’ + -cracy. |