Example sentences for: meritocracy

How can you use “meritocracy” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Bush is the last of the silver-spooners, born to privilege before meritocracy ended easy access to elite universities and golden-ring jobs.

  • Social critic Nicholas Lemann writes on Jews in Second Place, about what happens to American Jews as Asians replace them at the top of the meritocracy.

  • Call it gratuitous meritocracy.

  • Young, like many theorists of meritocracy, assumed that ethnicity would become a nonissue (should be nonissue) under such a system.

  • Themselves the beneficiaries of meritocracy, they were now ready to reduce its weight for those who did not do well in the tests created to serve meritocracy.


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