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telocratic

telocratic adjective: pertaining to a governing set of rules or goals.

Adjective

telocratic (comparative more telocratic, superlative most telocratic)

  1. Pertaining to a governing set of rules or goals.
    • Yet it is abundantly clear that in practice, if not always in rhetoric, most contemporary Western governments have operated with telocratic assumptions.1994, Bryan S. Turner, Peter Hamilton, Citizenship: Critical Concepts, page 28
    • The goals which telocratic governments seek to secure for people whether the welfare goals of health, education, and social security and goals of a darker hue such as racial, ethnic, national, cultural, or religious purity equally have their roots deep in European history.2009, Raymond Plant, The Neo-liberal State, page 13
  2. Relating to the final interglacial stage, when temperatures are beginning to fall and soils begin to disappear.
    • Carpinus and Abies expanded in the telocratic phase, Carpinus before Abies in the west, the two simultaneously in eastern Europe.2012, B. Huntley, T. Webb III, Vegetation history, page 173

Proper noun

telocratic

  1. The final interglacial stage, when temperatures are beginning to fall and soils begin to disappear.
    • Turner and West ( 1968 ) suggest that the phases of an interglacial period (cryocratic, protocratic , mesocratic , telocratic ) be considered as cenozones.1975, Valentin Abramovich Krasilov, Paleoecology of Terrestrial Plants, page 229
    • Significantly, his pollen deposits reveal the conditions both in the oligocratic and the telocratic.1982, John D. Hamaker, Donald A. Weaver, The Survival of Civilization Depends Upon Our Solving Three Problems, page 64

Forms of telocratic

comparativemore telocratic
superlativemost telocratic

Questions about telocratic

What does telocratic mean?
Telocratic means pertaining to a governing set of rules or goals.
What part of speech is telocratic?
Telocratic can be an adjective or a proper noun.

Words near telocratic in the dictionary

  1. telocinobufagin
  2. telocoel
  3. telocoels
  4. telocollagen
  5. teloconch
  6. telocratic
  7. telocyte
  8. telocytes
  9. telodendrimer
  10. telodendrimers
  11. telodendrion

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