gerontocracy
C2CEFR level
85/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
General noun
Rule or control by old people.
With every minister past seventy, the party had become a gerontocracy out of touch with younger voters.
Business noun
Rule or control exercised by a group of elders or the elderly.
The firm had calcified into a gerontocracy, with every key decision routed through partners who had stopped taking risks decades ago.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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