corpocracy

American  

[kawr-pok-ruh-see] / kɔrˈpɒk rə si /

noun

plural

corpocracies

1. a corporate bureaucracy.

2. a company characterized by bureaucracy.

3. a government run like a corporate bureaucracy.

4. a society in which corporations have much economic and political power.

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Other Word Forms

• corpocratic adjective

Etymology

Origin of corpocracy

First recorded in 1935-40; blend of corporate ( def. ) or corporation ( def. ) + -cracy ( def. )

Example Sentences

At ACF, which was suffering from steadily declining earnings, Icahn encountered a splendid example of the so-called corpocracy of entrenched executives that he had berated for years.

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Goldsmith is just as fiercely critical of the business establishment, which he calls corpocracy.

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The Reagan Administration invoked corpocracy as a reason to take the lead on another fast-rising issue: industrial competitiveness.

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Only three weeks ago Deputy Treasury Secretary Richard Darman launched a slashing attack on what he called "corpocracy."

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One was "corpocracy," meaning the Big Business equivalent of government bureaucracy.

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