Meritocratic
adjective
Related to a system where rewards and positions are given based on skill and ability, not because of wealth, race, or other non-relevant factors.
She believes the company should be more meritocratic when promoting employees.
Often appears as...
- meritocratic society
- meritocratic system
adjective
Related to a system where rewards and positions are given based on skill and ability, not because of wealth, race, or other non-relevant factors.
She believes the company should be more meritocratic when promoting employees.
Often appears as...
- meritocratic society
- meritocratic system
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Pro Tip 1/3Context Importance
When using 'meritocratic', think about the social or work context emphasizing fairness and achievement.
She won the award in a meritocratic decision, judged solely on her project's excellence.
Pro Tip 2/3Positive Connotation
'Meritocratic' often suggests a positive view of fairness, where hard work is rewarded.
He's proud to attend a meritocratic university that values student abilities.
Pro Tip 3/3Critical Context
Sometimes 'meritocratic' can be used critically, to question if a system is truly fair.
The so-called meritocratic hiring process overlooked many talented candidates.
Pro Tip 1/3Context Importance
When using 'meritocratic', think about the social or work context emphasizing fairness and achievement.
She won the award in a meritocratic decision, judged solely on her project's excellence.
Pro Tip 2/3Positive Connotation
'Meritocratic' often suggests a positive view of fairness, where hard work is rewarded.
He's proud to attend a meritocratic university that values student abilities.
Pro Tip 3/3Critical Context
Sometimes 'meritocratic' can be used critically, to question if a system is truly fair.
The so-called meritocratic hiring process overlooked many talented candidates.
Pro Tip 1/3Context Importance
When using 'meritocratic', think about the social or work context emphasizing fairness and achievement.
She won the award in a meritocratic decision, judged solely on her project's excellence.
Pro Tip 2/3Positive Connotation
'Meritocratic' often suggests a positive view of fairness, where hard work is rewarded.
He's proud to attend a meritocratic university that values student abilities.
Pro Tip 3/3Critical Context
Sometimes 'meritocratic' can be used critically, to question if a system is truly fair.
The so-called meritocratic hiring process overlooked many talented candidates.
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A kinder, gentler...
about our careers, about our status in the world today, than ever before. And it's, again, linked to something nice. And that nice thing is called meritocracy. Everybody, all politicians on Left and Right, agree that meritocracy is a great thing, and we should all be trying to make our societies really, really meritocratic.
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A kinder, gentler...
about our careers, about our status in the world today, than ever before. And it's, again, linked to something nice. And that nice thing is called meritocracy. Everybody, all politicians on Left and Right, agree that meritocracy is a great thing, and we should all be trying to make our societies really, really meritocratic.
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Quote examples
Ross Douthat
American Author
On the evidence we have, the meritocratic ideal ends up being just as undemocratic as the old emphasis on inheritance and tradition, and it forges an elite that has an aristocracy's vices (privilege, insularity, arrogance) without the sense of duty, self-restraint and noblesse oblige that WASPs at their best displayed.
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David Miliband
British Politician
The 1970s - I was ten in 1975 - were a bad decade in all sorts of ways but the middle class had comfortable assumptions about the prospects for its children. The middle class was smaller then; it was a much less competitive Britain, less meritocratic.
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Nandan Nilekani
Indian Politician
Infosys was going to be a different type of company. It was going to be very ethically run, meritocratic, quality-conscious, transparent. People didn't confuse the personal with the corporate.
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Andrew Neil
British Journalist
As class barriers tumbled and Britain became a more meritocratic society, young, well-educated Scots were best placed to exploit the new social mobility.
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Andrew Neil
British Journalist
Britain's great postwar meritocratic experiment was broad-based, but it was in politics that the change was most dramatic.
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Victor Davis Hanson
American Historian
Even in its third century, America is still the most meritocratic nation in the world.
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Ross Douthat
American Author
On the evidence we have, the meritocratic ideal ends up being just as undemocratic as the old emphasis on inheritance and tradition, and it forges an elite that has an aristocracy's vices (privilege, insularity, arrogance) without the sense of duty, self-restraint and noblesse oblige that WASPs at their best displayed.
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David Miliband
British Politician
The 1970s - I was ten in 1975 - were a bad decade in all sorts of ways but the middle class had comfortable assumptions about the prospects for its children. The middle class was smaller then; it was a much less competitive Britain, less meritocratic.
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Nandan Nilekani
Indian Politician
Infosys was going to be a different type of company. It was going to be very ethically run, meritocratic, quality-conscious, transparent. People didn't confuse the personal with the corporate.
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Andrew Neil
British Journalist
As class barriers tumbled and Britain became a more meritocratic society, young, well-educated Scots were best placed to exploit the new social mobility.
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Andrew Neil
British Journalist
Britain's great postwar meritocratic experiment was broad-based, but it was in politics that the change was most dramatic.
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Victor Davis Hanson
American Historian
Even in its third century, America is still the most meritocratic nation in the world.
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