educratn.
/ˈɛdjᵿkrat/, /ˈɛdʒᵿkrat/, U.S. /ˈɛdʒəˌkræt/ Originally and chiefly North American (derogatory).
An educational administrator or theorist, esp. one in charge of policy-making, regarded as being removed from the experience of teaching in a school.
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1964 Daily Reporter (Dover, Ohio) 2 Apr. 13 The period [sc. the Depression] also gave rise to..progressive education, resulting in what the author terms ‘educationists, educrats and eduvacs’.
1973 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 19 Dec. 7/2 By creating..the foolish Hall-Dennis Report, our educrats taught the people of Ontario to expect flashy results from fashionable illusions and limitless expenditure.
1982 Underground Grammarian Mar. 4/2 Agency-spawned educrats and grant-hustlers who really do profit from ‘increased spending’.
2007 B. Hampe Making Documentary Films & Videos (ed. 2) ii. vii. 65 His informal statements of the day before were transposed into the safe, polysyllabic jargon of an educrat.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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