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A major concern of her book is to challenge historical stereotypes about gerontocracies on the one side, and what might be termed the ' immiseration ' of the elderly on the other.

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The higher the average polygyny rate, the greater the element ofgerontocracy.

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Like many other disciplines, psychology is agerontocracy.

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How do the male reproductives of the"gerontocracy" withstand the co-operative attacks of the young males?

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If there is a rentiergerontocracy, it is standing firmly on the shoulders of child labour in or from the third world.

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Young males in harem societies are faced with a problem of acquiring mates against a gradient of mate possession established by a"gerontocracy" of their fathers.

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I hope that we are a representative democracy, representing all views, spectrums and genders, rather than thegerontocracythat we may sometimes appear to be.

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The debate on the age of consent brought home to me very sharply that we are a truegerontocracy.

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Is not the real danger of the metrication change not bureaucracy butgerontocracy?

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There was no one else on the board of governors, which consisted of what one might call the local politicalgerontocracy, who knew anything about colleges of education whatever.

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Opposition togerontocracymay cause weakening or elimination of this characteristic by instituting things like term limits or mandatory retirement ages.

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Gerontocracyis a form of oligarchical rule in which an entity is ruled by leaders who are significantly older than most of the adult population.

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On the other hand,gerontocracymay emerge in an institution not initially known for it.

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Tokophobia, the fear of childbirth, may also be a precursor; gerontophobia, or its antonym,gerontocracy, may be extensions of adultism.

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They are agerontocracy, with the eldest among them ruling since they have the wisdom to govern.

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Politically, the stagnation began with the establishment of agerontocracy, which came into being as part of the policy of stability.

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In a simplified definition, agerontocracyis a society where leadership is reserved for elders.

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单词	gerontocracy
释义	BETA Examples ofgerontocracy Dictionary> Examples ofgerontocracy gerontocracyisn’t in the Cambridge Dictionary yet. You can help! Add a definition A major concern of her book is to challenge historical stereotypes about gerontocracies on the one side, and what might be termed the ' immiseration ' of the elderly on the other. From theCambridge English Corpus The higher the average polygyny rate, the greater the element ofgerontocracy. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Like many other disciplines, psychology is agerontocracy. From theCambridge English Corpus How do the male reproductives of the"gerontocracy" withstand the co-operative attacks of the young males? From theCambridge English Corpus If there is a rentiergerontocracy, it is standing firmly on the shoulders of child labour in or from the third world. From theCambridge English Corpus Young males in harem societies are faced with a problem of acquiring mates against a gradient of mate possession established by a"gerontocracy" of their fathers. From theCambridge English Corpus I hope that we are a representative democracy, representing all views, spectrums and genders, rather than thegerontocracythat we may sometimes appear to be. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 The debate on the age of consent brought home to me very sharply that we are a truegerontocracy. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Is not the real danger of the metrication change not bureaucracy butgerontocracy? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 There was no one else on the board of governors, which consisted of what one might call the local politicalgerontocracy, who knew anything about colleges of education whatever. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Opposition togerontocracymay cause weakening or elimination of this characteristic by instituting things like term limits or mandatory retirement ages. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Gerontocracyis a form of oligarchical rule in which an entity is ruled by leaders who are significantly older than most of the adult population. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. On the other hand,gerontocracymay emerge in an institution not initially known for it. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Tokophobia, the fear of childbirth, may also be a precursor; gerontophobia, or its antonym,gerontocracy, may be extensions of adultism. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. They are agerontocracy, with the eldest among them ruling since they have the wisdom to govern. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Politically, the stagnation began with the establishment of agerontocracy, which came into being as part of the policy of stability. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. In a simplified definition, agerontocracyis a society where leadership is reserved for elders. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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