technocratn.

1932 Ogden (Utah) Standard-Examiner 4 Dec. 2/1 Technocracy..has hit New York economists, industrial engineers and certain alert bankers, like an intellectual bung starter... Here's a step down version of what the technocrats find, and what they are doing [etc.].

1932 Sun (Baltimore) 12 Dec. 6/3 The Technocrats, thanks..largely to a peculiarly fetching ‘trade label’ which embodies in one word two of the most far-reaching of current concepts, technology and democracy, are succeeding in a remarkable degree in breaking down the apathy.

1965 W. H. G. Armytage Rise of Technocrats v. 66 St. Simonians were the first technocrats: apostles of the religion of industry.

2006 Slavic Rev. 65 548 Increasingly, they [sc. Russian eugenicists] were viewed as dangerous technocrats, elitists with bourgeois sympathies.

1933 Times Lit. Suppl. 26 Jan. 46/2 An age that was already substituting the technocrat for the monarch.

1957 London Mag. Jan. 48 Sprawling in my revolving chair, behind a man-sized desk, I could imagine myself a brisk and efficient technocrat, a kind of highbrow tycoon.

1984 G. H. Clarfield & W. M. Wiecek Nucl. Amer. v. 175 Not one of the expensive new programs spawned by the inventive technocrats, military men, and their industrial patrons..produced anything significant.

2005 Independent 16 Nov. 2/2 A small army of technocrats..is employed to watch over China's 100 million-plus internet users.

1949 Mind 58 416 Lersch denies the widely accepted thesis that man's uniqueness consists in his activities (activism, pragmatism, technocratism) since these are characteristic only of the Male's relation to the world.

2001 Ann. Rev. Ecol. & Systematics 32 32 Technocratism is an effort to achieve policy solutions by recourse to technological innovation or through what is sometimes called a technological fix.