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Quangocracy vs Quangocrat - What's the difference?

quangocracy | quangocrat |

As nouns the difference between quangocracy and quangocrat

is that quangocracy is rule by quangos or similar unelected bodies while quangocrat is a proponent of quangocracy.

quangocracy

English

Noun

(quangocracies)
  • Rule by quangos or similar unelected bodies.
  • *2014 , (Will Self), The Guardian , 22 May 2014:
  • *:This vicious and unjust slur is handed down from on high by a back-slapping quangocracy that's "in agreement about everything".

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    quangocrat

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A proponent of quangocracy.
  • * 1990 , Martin Mayer, The Greatest-ever Bank Robbery: The Collapse of the Savings and Loan Industry
    • Right now, FCA is what the British call a 'quango,' for Quasi-Autonomous National Governmental Organization, and Popejoy is a quangocrat playing chicken.
  • * 1994 , The Economist
    • In many parts of Britain a new class of quangocrat has emerged, and nowhere more so than in Wales.
  • * 1999 , Bill Jones, Political Issues in Britain Today
    • As Nolan moved in to stop payments for sitting on such boards, The Guardian identified the main 'quangocrat' as Sir Brian Shaw, who received £4000 per day...
  • * 2002 , Sarah Ferris, Poet John Hewitt, 1907-1987 and Criticism of Northern Irish Protestant Writing
    • In the hands of a genuinely well-meaning Arts Council, it also means 'power', exercised by some genuinely well-meaning quangocrat .