Meanings
plural educrats
- derogatoryAn official or administrator in a school district or government body.
It has everything to do with the educrat industry whose grip on our children Hillary is helping to maintain.
2000, Laura Ingraham, The Hillary trap: looking for power in all the wrong places3 more examples
This is a great example of an educrat, getting in the way of what's right to push a failed political ideology.
2020, Adriana LaGrange, Refusing to spend adequate money to protect Alberta kids during a pandemicMany educrats make much of their income and build their reputations trying to fix the problems they themselves created with their dopey educational methodologies.
2002, Marsh Kaminsky, OnieAs a result of the misguided educrats, college students across the country now spend much of the first two years in remedial classes […]
2003, G Gordon Liddy, When I Was a Kid, This Was a Free Country
Origin
- Englisheducator
- Proto-Indo-European*péh₂wr̥
- Proto-Hellenic*pāwər
- Ancient Greekπῦρ (pûr)
- Ancient Greekπῠρρός (pŭrrhós)
- Latinburrus
- Latinburra
- Old French*bure
- Old Frenchburel
- Frenchbureau
- Proto-Indo-European*kret-
- Ancient Greekκρᾰ́τος (krắtos)
- Frenchbureaucratie
- Frenchbureaucrate
- Englishbureaucrat
- Englisheducrat
Blend of educator + bureaucrat.
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educrat. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/educrat
“educrat.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/educrat. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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