gerontocracy

英语

词源

geronto- +‎ -cracy，来自古希腊语。

发音

• 国际音标^(帮助): /ˌdʒɛɹənˈtɒkɹəsi/

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名词

gerontocracy (可数 和 不可数，复数 gerontocracies)

1. 老人政治

   反义词：juvenocracy

   • 1972, Harriet Zuckerman, Robert K. Merton, “Age, Aging, and Age Structure in Science”, 出自 Matilda White Riley, Marilyn Johnson, Anne Foner, Aging and Society, 第 3 (A Sociology of Age Stratification) 卷, New York, N.Y.: Russell Sage Foundation, →ISBN，第 337 页:

     It would come as no surprise to find that optimum science policy is apt to be developed neither by gerontocracy nor by juvenocracy but, like the community of scientists itself, by age-diversified meritocracy.

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   • 1997年3月9日, Paul Krugman, “Does Getting Old Cost Society Too Much?”, 出自 The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     But in his 1996 novel, Holy Fire, [Bruce] Sterling imagines a rather different future: a world ruled by an all-powerful gerontocracy, which appropriates most of the world's wealth to pay for ever more costly life-extension techniques.

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   • 2018, Mikiso Hane, Modern Japan: A Historical Survey‎^[2], 5th版, Routledge, →ISBN:

     He [Koizumi] was what would pass for a political maverick among Japan's faceless gray gerontocracy.

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相关词

• gerontocrat
• gerontocratic
• gerontocratical
• gerontocratically