Meaning of mediocrat | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A politician or bureaucrat of mediocre ability.
2. An advocate of mediocracy; one who prefers to avoid controversy, change and risk.
3. An ordinary person with no special abilities; a mediocrity.
4. A politician or leader from a middle-class background.
5. A plant species that thrives in moderate conditions.

Examples

“The Oligarchs — remnants from Brazil's colonial past — are sub-divided into the well-intentioned but provincial "mediocrats" and the more highly powered "kleptocrats" — thieves of the first order⟳.”

“In India, men and women of talent, ability, honesty and integrity keep⟳ their distance from the politics of today. It is a game of mediocrats.”

“It was argued by Jayashree (1999) and by Sadri and Jayashree (2002) that the greatest hindrance to organisational progress⟳ is the mediocrat - the bureaucrat who tries to guard his turf since he is inherently insecure.”

“There is in Canadian political, business, and social life a certain formality and conservatism that reflect⟳ this fact. This conservatism has its regrettable side, of course. The walking dead are out in numbers - the mediocrats, the anti-hothead vote⟳.”

“Perhaps this Utopia of the mediocrats is not so far off; perhaps it is time for the meritocracy to assert itself.”

“And our mediocrats are satisfied. Mediocrity is not, of course, a specifically modern sin; what is specifically modern is its overwhelming acceptance as the normal condition of humanity.”

“First of all, we have⟳ to scrap the mediocrats' approach⟳. We have⟳ to reward⟳ excellence without going to a superstar mentality, and we have⟳ to take⟳ care that at all times all the possibilities are covered.”

“Follow⟳ the big top, even if you're only one of the crowd, only a mediocrat, as Vesta says.”

“Not only is marriage a prerequisite for these groups, but in all other respects the joiners sound⟳ like⟳ archetypical mediocrats. Their average income is about $10,000 a year; the most heavily represented occupational categories are “salesman” and "housewife," and the average age is thirty to fifty.”

“The world evolution is out of mediocrats. You cannot expect⟳ all to be Nobel Prize winners or scientists of the rank of Newton.”

“A Council like⟳ this, constituted as it will be exclusively of the ruling chiefs and territorial magnates, will be a mere ornamental body, hardly competent to give⟳ sound⟳ advice to Government in all important matters. In India it is the mediocrat who have⟳ received the light⟳ of education, and it is they whou can render good advice for the solution of the important political problems that may arise⟳ in the administration of this country.”

“Increasingly, it is through these media-anointed mediocrats — Reverend Al Sharpton for New York's black dispossessed microculture, to cite one example — that microcultures talk⟳ to one another.”

“In our opinion it is impossible to consider⟳ Taxodiaceae as a characteristic index of a warm climate and therefore they cannot be included in the typical mediocrats group,”

“The sharp increase⟳ in terminocrats and the decrease in mediocrats between marker beds f and h should correspond to renewed cooling.”

“The mediocrats (see⟳ “mesocratic” in Figure⟳ 15.8) curve refers to Quercus, Tilia, Ulmus, and other trees/shrubs characteristic of the climatic-optimum part of interglacials.”

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