meritocracy

English Thesaurus

1. the belief that rulers should be chosen for their superior abilities and not because of their wealth or birth (noun.cognition)

hypernym	:	ideology, political orientation, political theory,
definition	:	an orientation that characterizes the thinking of a group or nation (noun.cognition)

2. a form of social system in which power goes to those with superior intellects (noun.group)

hypernym	:	social organisation, social organization, social structure, social system, structure,
definition	:	the people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships (noun.group)

3. the belief that rulers should be chosen for their superior abilities and not because of their wealth or birth (noun.cognition)

derivation	:	meritocratic, meritocratic,
definition	:	relating to or characteristic of a meritocracy (adj.pert)

derivation	:	meritocratic, meritocratic,
definition	:	relating to or characteristic of a meritocracy (adj.pert)