Definitions
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- noun an advocate of
meritocracy - noun a person who has authority allegedly based on ability
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Examples
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The great moral contest for the meritocrat is not between good and evil or virtue and vice.
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The prime ethical imperative for the meritocrat is self-fulfillment.
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The prime ethical imperative for the meritocrat is self-fulfillment.
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The great moral contest for the meritocrat is not between good and evil or virtue and vice.
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A confirmed meritocrat – British Wrestling's performance director is Malcolm's son – he points out that "it's a cruel world".
True love among the leotards lifts Britain's 2012 wrestling hopes | Marina Hyde 2011
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Yet he remains an almost unqualified meritocrat, arguing that the great challenge for government is not to promote greater equality but to make it easier for people to rise from one class to another.
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Instead it has chosen to replay the Sotomayor empathy soundtrack and repackage the prototypical meritocrat Kagan as the next coming of Norma Rae -- without noticing the obvious differences in the two nominees 'life stories.
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I am a meritocrat myself (which helps explain my affinity for Kagan).
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Imagine what they'd call the original meritocrat if he wrote that today!
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Taken as a whole, Marshall's meritocratic egalitarianism was strongly critical both of the distribution of social benefits and harms in the United States, which did not conform to meritocratic principles, and of the widespread ideas about meritocracy, which placed too much weight on differences that a real meritocrat would regard as minor.
Tushnet on The Meritocratic Egalitarianism of Thurgood Marshall Mary L. Dudziak 2009
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