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adhocrats

adhocrats is the plural 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 adhocrats

alternative formad hocrats
alternative formad-hocrats

Questions about adhocrats

What is adhocrats the plural of?
Adhocrats is the plural of adhocrat.

Words near adhocrats in the dictionary

  1. adhocracy
  2. adhocrat
  3. adhocratic
  4. adhocratical
  5. adhocratically
  6. adhocrats
  7. Adhola
  8. adhort
  9. adhortation
  10. adhortations
  11. adhortative

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