educrat
nounEtymology
Etymology tree English educator Proto-Indo-European *péh₂wr̥ Proto-Hellenic *pāwər Ancient Greek πῦρ (pûr) Proto-Indo-European *-rós Proto-Hellenic *-rós Ancient Greek -ρός (-rós) Ancient Greek πῠρρός (pŭrrhós)bor. Latin burrus Latin burra Old French *bure Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -ulus Latin -ellus Old French -el Old French burel French bureau Proto-Indo-European *kret- Ancient Greek κρᾰ́τος (krắtos) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek -κρᾰτῐ́ᾱ (-krătĭ́ā)lbor. French -cratie French bureaucratie French bureaucratebor. English bureaucrat blend English educrat Blend of educator + bureaucrat.
- derived from -cratie French bureaucratie French bureaucratebor
Definitions
An official or administrator in a school district or government body.
- This is a great example of an educrat, getting in the way of what's right to push a failed political ideology.
- It has everything to do with the educrat industry whose grip on our children Hillary is helping to maintain.
- Many educrats make much of their income and build their reputations trying to fix the problems they themselves created with their dopey educational methodologies.
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No curated loop yet for educrat. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA