meritocracy

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mer·i·toc·ra·cy /ˌmerəˈtɒkrəsi $ -ˈtɑː-/ noun (plural meritocracies)  1. PPPSS[countable] a social system that gives the greatest power and highest social positions to people with the most ability 精英管理（制度），贤能统治2. the meritocracy PPGSSthe people who have power in a meritocracy 精英管理阶层，贤能统治者 → aristocracy —meritocratic /ˌmerətəˈkrætɪk◂/ adjective

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meritocracy• However, in a meritocracy, those at the bottom are clearly inferior.• In a meritocracy, talent and ability are efficiently syphoned out of the lower strata.• He was evidence that the trading floor was a meritocracy.• In the collaborative meritocracy, people who are talented enough and committed enough are rightly seen as indispensable.• The institutional racism model thus overlaps with an equal opportunities model which demands self-conscious meritocracy in spirit and in procedures.• But it was possible to turn the critique of meritocracy against the schools themselves.• Secondly it is a declaration that meritocracy does not operate by default.• The meritocracy that reigned among students thus functioned hardly at all within the faculty.From Longman Business Dictionarymeritocracymer‧i‧toc‧ra‧cy /ˌmerəˈtɒkrəsi-ˈtɑː-/ noun (plural meritocracies) [countable] a social system that gives the greatest power and highest social positions to people with the most abilityEveryone wanted to belong to the new meritocracy, based not on birth but on talent and achievement.

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meritocracy
mer‧i‧toc‧ra‧cy /ˌmerəˈtɒkrəsi, ˌmerɪˈtɒkrəsi $ -ˈtɑː-/ noun (plural meritocracies)
1. [countable] a social system that gives the greatest power and highest social positions to people with the most ability
2. the meritocracy the people who have power in a meritocracy ⇨ aristocracy
—meritocratic /ˌmerətəˈkrætɪk◂, ˌmerɪtəˈkrætɪk◂/ adjective

mer·it·oc·racyBrE /ˌmerɪˈtɒkrəsi/ 🔊NAmE /ˌmerɪˈtɑːkrəsi/ 🔊 noun (

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mer·it·oc·racies) [countable, uncountable] a country or social system where people get power or money on the basis of their ability 精英领导体制；英才管理制度the meritocracy [singular] the group of people with power in this kind of social system 精英管理班子▸ mer·ito·crat·ic BrE /ˌmerɪtəˈkrætɪk/ 🔊NAmE /ˌmerɪtəˈkrætɪk/ 🔊 adjective