Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The extremest form of physiocracy, which reduces all government to the action of so-called natural laws and amounts to anarchism.
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- noun politics, philosophy In
political philosophy , the negation of rule or "government ." A society with the absence ofcoercion ; one of voluntaryorder .
Etymologies
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Examples
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In congress the corporate-acracy was saved and reinforced.
Earlier Benefits Could Be On The Table In House/Senate Health Care Conference 2009
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This is not your father's conference, folks -- and this is not even your brother's conference, friends -- this is the do-acracy and i have feeling it is going to ROAR.
Archive 2005-07-01 Ben Barren 2005
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This is not your father's conference, folks -- and this is not even your brother's conference, friends -- this is the do-acracy and i have feeling it is going to ROAR.
Lisa, Ponzi, Susan, Danah et al : BlogHer Conference Ben Barren 2005
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But whatever one might think about “interfering” free speech, when you actually take the step beyond “speech” to “rush” a stage, you’ve gone far beyond any sort of freedom of speech, and now are violating another group’s right to “peaceably assemble”, and your left with a case of mob-acracy.
Free Speech 2006
herotuesday commented on the word acracy
No -cracy at all.
September 25, 2007
kewpid commented on the word acracy
Perhaps we should try it.
September 25, 2007
uselessness commented on the word acracy
So, it's anarchy, right? The difference between the words being "no rule" versus "no leader." But I guess they're basically the same.
September 26, 2007