gerontocracy

English

Etymology

geronto- +‎ -cracy, from Ancient Greek

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˌdʒɛɹənˈtɒkɹəsi/

Noun

gerontocracy (plural gerontocracies)

  1. Government by elders.
    • 1997 March 9, Paul Krugman, “Does Getting Old Cost Society Too Much?”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:
      But in his 1996 novel, Holy Fire, [Bruce] Sterling imagines a rather different future: a world ruled by an all-powerful gerontocracy, 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, fifth edition, Routledge, →ISBN:
      He [Koizumi] was what would pass for a political maverick among Japan's faceless gray gerontocracy.

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