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ad-hocrat

ad-hocrat is the alternative form of adhocrat.

Meaning of adhocrat

Noun

adhocrat (plural adhocrats)

  1. (organizational theory) One who espouses or practises adhocracy.
    • The efficient manager of bureaucracy was to be replaced by a change-responsive ‘adhocrat’ (Toffler, 1970). But […] the 1950s’ tasks of management are not being replaced, but enlarged and complemented; much of the equipment of the industrial manager will remain vital to the firm’s success.Alvin Toffler (1970), Future Shock, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →OCLC

Forms of ad-hocrat

pluralad-hocrats

Questions about ad-hocrat

What is ad-hocrat the alternative form of?
Ad-hocrat is the alternative form of adhocrat.

Words near ad-hocrat in the dictionary

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

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