meritocratic

From merit +‎ -o- +‎ -cratic or meritocrat +‎ -ic.

• Rhymes: -ætɪk

meritocratic (comparative more meritocratic, superlative most meritocratic)

1. Pertaining to a meritocracy.
   • 2019 September 5, Sarah Leonard, “The Fall of the Meritocracy”, in The New Republic‎^[1], archived from the original on 7 September 2019:

     Sixty years on from Young’s book, a pure product of meritocratic training has emerged to write what he hopes will be the epitaph for his class.

   • 2019 September 9, Jennifer Schuessler, “The Meritocrat Who Wants to Unwind the Meritocracy”, in The New York Times‎^[2], archived from the original on 10 September 2019:

     And now Mr. Markovits is taking his message to the masses, with a big new book arguing that the meritocratic ideal has not only fed rampant inequality and hollowed out the middle class, but also threatens democracy itself.

   • 2020 January 9, Daniel Markovits, “How Meritocracy Worsens Inequality—and Makes Even the Rich Miserable”, in Yale Insights‎^[3], archived from the original on 1 March 2020:

     But while the meritocratic system was intended to democratize American society, argues Yale Law School’s Daniel Markovits in his book The Meritocracy Trap, it has instead contributed to increasing inequality and the decline of the middle class.