educrat

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/ˈɛd͡ʒəkɹæt/

noun

An official or administrator in a school district or government body.

Scrabble 10

Meanings

nouneducrat (plural educrats)

plural educrats

  1. 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 places
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    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 pandemic

    Many 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, Onie

    As 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

  1. Englisheducator
  2. Proto-Indo-European*péh₂wr̥
  3. Proto-Hellenic*pāwər
  4. Ancient Greekπῦρ (pûr)
  5. Ancient Greekπῠρρός (pŭrrhós)
  6. Latinburrus
  7. Latinburra
  8. Old French*bure
  9. Old Frenchburel
  10. Frenchbureau
  11. Proto-Indo-European*kret-
  12. Ancient Greekκρᾰ́τος (krắtos)
  13. Frenchbureaucratie
  14. Frenchbureaucrate
  15. Englishbureaucrat
  16. Englisheducrat

Blend of educator + bureaucrat.

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APA

educrat. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/educrat

MLA

“educrat.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/educrat. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “educrat,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/educrat.

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