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ad-hocracy

ad-hocracy is the alternative form of adhocracy.

Meaning of adhocracy

Noun

adhocracy (plural adhocracies)

  1. (organizational theory) An organizational system designed to be flexible and responsive to the needs of the moment rather than excessively bureaucratic.
    • This is a picture of the coming Ad-hocracy, the fast-moving, information-rich, kinetic organization of the future, filled with transient cells and extremely mobile individuals […]1970, Alvin Toffler, Future Shock, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →OCLC, page 140

Forms of ad-hocracy

pluralad-hocracies

Questions about ad-hocracy

What is ad-hocracy the alternative form of?
Ad-hocracy is the alternative form of adhocracy.

Words near ad-hocracy in the dictionary

  1. ad-hockeries
  2. ad-hockery
  3. ad-hocly
  4. ad-hocness
  5. ad-hocracies
  6. ad-hocracy
  7. ad-hocrat
  8. ad-hocrats
  9. ad-lib
  10. ad-libbed
  11. ad-libber

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