Definitions
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- noun A member of a gerontocratic ruling class; an
aged leader, especially one clinging on to power or ruling only by virtue of age.
Etymologies
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From geronto- + -crat, after gerontocracy.
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Several years of internecine back-stabbing over the leadership has led them successively to advance as a potential Prime Minister a drunkocrat, a gerontocrat and now an infantocrat.
Archive 2008-03-02 2008
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Several years of internecine back-stabbing over the leadership has led them successively to advance as a potential Prime Minister a drunkocrat, a gerontocrat and now an infantocrat.
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When Leonid Brezhnev, the first mentally inflexible gerontocrat, died in November 1982 (just a month before turning 76), Reagan was three months away from turning 72.
The Republican's Chernenko versus the Democrat's Gorbachevs 2008
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