different between czarocrat vs taxonomy

English

Alternative forms

• tsarocrat

Etymology

czar +? -o- +? -crat

Noun

czarocrat (plural czarocrats)

1. A participant in czarocracy or a czarocratic regime.
2. A supporter of czarocracy or a czarocratic government.
3. An official or bureaucrat with substantial autonomy, especially one referred to as a "czar" or "tsar".

Quotations

• 1913, Albion Woodbury Small, Between Eras: From Capitalism to Democracy, Inter-Collegiate Press, Kansas City, p. 369.

But the Douma knows, and the Czar knows, and the Czarocrats know that a constitution with the word 'Autocrat' left out would be the Magna Charta of Russian liberties.

• 2005, Andrew T. Gillies, "Tech's Christmas Wish", in Forbes.com, November 30, 2005.

Why would techies toast the appointment of a czarocrat?

• 2009, John Phillip Gingrey, Congressional Record, U.S. House of Representatives, H12357, November 4, 2009.

Now the Pelosi health care reform that the Representative from Michigan just showed us, the 2,000-page monstrosity, these 53 bureaucrats, czarocrats, czarinas, whatever, have grown to about 150.

Derived terms

• czarocracy
• czarocratic

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French taxonomie. Surface analysis taxo- +? -nomy.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tæk?s?n?mi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /tæk?s??n?mi/
• Rhymes: -?n?mi

Noun

taxonomy (countable and uncountable, plural taxonomies)

1. The science or the technique used to make a classification.
2. A classification; especially, a classification in a hierarchical system.
3. (taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.

Synonyms

• taxonomics
• (science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms): alpha taxonomy

Coordinate terms

• nomenclature
• ontology

Derived terms

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