meritocratic

Examples

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• More broadly, should the distribution of resources like telescope observing time be based on democratic, meritocratic, or elitist principles?

  Academic text (2003)

• Talents are not distributed evenly, and in a capitalistic meritocratic society, those without will be disappointed and left behind.

  Blog text (9)

• People like things to be a little more meritocratic these days.

  The Purging Hour (2015)

• Plus, the Chinese Communist Party is in many ways one of the most meritocratic organisations in the world.

  Harvard University

• The meritocratic museum catered to a single audience: the visitor seeking to experience excellence.

  Academic text (1999)

• One interpretation of this comparison may be that community colleges are more meritocratic institutions than their four-year counterparts.

  Academic text (2008)

• Let me begin with the meritocratic and aristocratic assumptions of liberal education that its defenders acknowledge.

  Academic text (1991)

• There's also a lively, seemingly much more meritocratic intellectual scene in the blogosphere and on Twitter.

  Blog text (12)

• John Stuart Mill thought he could combine the meritocratic and aristocratic virtues of liberal education.

  Academic text (1991)

• In Taiwan's case, there was no coercive means of promoting equality; instead, it followed the Confucian tradition of meritocratic education.

  Academic text (1996)

Antonyms

C

classist

3 8.1

Showing unfair treatment or dislike of people because of their social class

How Meritocratic

unbiased

43 4.4

meritocratic

2 7.8

biased

91 4.0

nepotistic

1 8.1

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology