Meanings
noungerontocrat (plural gerontocrats)
plural gerontocrats
- A member of a gerontocracy; an aged leader, especially one clinging on to power or ruling only by virtue of age.
India is run by gerontocrats and epigones: grey hairs and groomed heirs.
2013 May 11, “What a waste”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8835, page 121 more example
In Poland, a so-called anti-Zionist urge proved that the Stalinist gerontocrats would stoop even to Hitlerite tactics to repress dissent and prolong their sterile and boring hold on power.
2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 98
Origin
From geronto- + -crat, after gerontocracy.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Italian gerontocrata
- gerontocrataTranslations
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