corpocracy

[ kawr-pok-ruh-see ]

noun

, plural cor·poc·ra·cies.

1. a corporate bureaucracy.
2. a company characterized by bureaucracy.
3. a government run like a corporate bureaucracy.
4. a society in which corporations have much economic and political power.

Other Words From

• cor·po·crat·ic [kawr-p, uh, -, krat, -ik], adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of corpocracy¹

First recorded in 1935-40; blend of corporate ( def ) or corporation ( def ) + -cracy ( def )

Example Sentences

His photographic exhibit “Torture” — at Houston’s Station Museum of Contemporary Art, arguably the region’s finest radical/anti-capitalist/human rights-oriented gallery space, which recently hosted the incredible exhibit “Corpocracy” — interrogates the complicity of the liberal subject in human rights violations that go on “in our name,” though we may not like to admit this reality.

From Salon

Sir Michael Angus, who has died at the age of 79, was one of the greatest exponents of what has been unkindly described as the corpocracy – the interlocking network of directorships at the top of British business.

From The Guardian

At ACF, which was suffering from steadily declining earnings, Icahn encountered a splendid example of the so-called corpocracy of entrenched executives that he had berated for years.

From Time Magazine Archive

Goldsmith is just as fiercely critical of the business establishment, which he calls corpocracy.

From Time Magazine Archive

Darman has used the term corpocracy to describe the bloated management of U.S. corporations that have resisted becoming more competitive.

From Time Magazine Archive