educrat

educrat

English

Etymology

Blend of educator +‎ bureaucrat

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛdʒəkɹæt/

Noun

educrat (plural educrats)

1. (derogatory) An official or administrator in a school district.
   • 2000, Laura Ingraham, The Hillary trap: looking for power in all the wrong places

     It has everything to do with the educrat industry whose grip on our children Hillary is helping to maintain.

   • 2002, Marsh Kaminsky, Onie

     Many educrats make much of their income and build their reputations trying to fix the problems they themselves created with their dopey educational methodologies.

   • 2003, G Gordon Liddy, When I Was a Kid, This Was a Free Country

     As a result of the misguided educrats, college students across the country now spend much of the first two years in remedial classes...

Anagrams

• Decatur, curated, traduce