gerontocracy

English

Etymology

geronto-+‎-cracy,fromAncient Greek

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/ˌdʒɛɹənˈtɒkɹəsi/

• Audio(Southern England):

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Noun

gerontocracy(countableanduncountable,pluralgerontocracies)

1. Government byelders.

   Antonym:juvenocracy

   • 1972,Harriet Zuckerman, Robert K. Merton, “Age, Aging, and Age Structure in Science”, inMatilda White Riley,Marilyn Johnson, Anne Foner,Aging and Society,volume 3 (A Sociology of Age Stratification), New York, N.Y.:Russell Sage Foundation,→ISBN,page337:

     It would come as no surprise to find that optimum science policy is apt to be developed neither bygerontocracynor by juvenocracy but, like the community of scientists itself, by age-diversified meritocracy.

   • 1997March 9, Paul Krugman, “Does Getting Old Cost Society Too Much?”, inThe New York Times‎^[1],→ISSN:

     But in his 1996 novel,Holy Fire,[Bruce] Sterling imagines a rather different future: a world ruled by an all-powerfulgerontocracy,which appropriates most of the world's wealth to pay for ever more costly life-extension techniques.

   • 2018,Mikiso Hane,Modern Japan: A Historical Survey‎^[2],5th edition, Routledge,→ISBN:

     He [Koizumi] was what would pass for a political maverick among Japan's faceless graygerontocracy.

Related terms

• gerontocrat
• gerontocratic
• gerontocratical
• gerontocratically

Translations

government by elders

• Arabic:غَيْرُونْتُوقْرَاطِيَّةf(ḡayrūntūqrāṭiyya)
• Basque:gerontokrazia
• Belarusian:герантакратыяf(hjerantakratyja)
• Bulgarian:геронтокрацияf(gerontokracija)
• Catalan:gerontocràciaf
• Chinese:

  Mandarin:Lão nhân chính trị(zh)(lǎorén zhèngzhì)

• Czech:gerontokracie(cs)f
• Danish:gerontokratic
• Dutch:gerontocratie(nl)f
• Esperanto:gerontokratio
• Estonian:gerontokraatia
• Finnish:gerontokratia
• French:gérontocratie(fr)f
• German:Gerontokratie(de)f
• Greek:γεροντοκρατία(el)f(gerontokratía)
• Hebrew:גרונטוקרטיהf(gerontokrátya)
• Hungarian:gerontokrácia(hu)
• Italian:gerontocrazia(it)f
• Japanese:Trường lão chi phối(chōrōshihai)
• Korean:장로정치(jangnojeongchi)
• Latvian:gerontokrācijaf
• Lithuanian:gerontokracijaf
• Malay:gerontokrasi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål:gerontokratim

• Polish:gerontokracjaf
• Portuguese:gerontocraciaf
• Romanian:gerontocrație(ro)f
• Russian:геронтокра́тия(ru)f(gerontokrátija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic:геронтокрацијаf

  Roman:gerontokracija(sh)f

• Sicilian:jiruntucrazzìaf
• Slovak:gerontokraciaf
• Slovene:gerontokracijaf
• Spanish:gerontocracia(es)f
• Swedish:gerontokratic
• Turkish:gerontokrasi
• Ukrainian:геронтократіяf(herontokratija)

Further reading

• gerontocracyon Wikipedia.Wikipedia