Word of the Day: Technocracy

Pronunciation:/tɛkˈnɒkrəsi/

noun (plural technocracies)

[mass noun]

• the government or control of society or industry by an elite of technical experts:failure in the war on poverty discredited technocracy
• [count noun] an instance or application of technocracy.
• [count noun] an elite of technical experts.
  

  Origin:

  early 20th century: from Greek tekhnē 'art, craft'  + -cracy

Silvio Berlusconi has resigned and Italy is moving quickly to put in place its puppet Technocratic Government, under (surprise!) a former European commissioner.

Daniel Hannan helpfully supplies the translation for the gullible and hard of thinking:

When people talk of ‘technocrats’, what they really mean is ‘the unelected Eurocrats whose policies caused the mess in the first place’.