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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 hom
  9. ad hominem
  10. ad hominems
  11. ad hominum

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