Similar words: autocracy, plutocracy, aristocracy, meritocracy, gerontology, gerontologist, theocracy, democracy. Meaning: [‚dʒerən'tɑkrəsɪ /-rɒn'tɒk-] 
n. a political system governed by old men.
n. a political system governed by old men. 
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1 Like many other disciplines, psychology is a gerontocracy.
2 In fact, the gerontocracy has few legal underpinnings; rather it has to do with culture and tradition.
3 The phenomenon of gerontocracy has existed for millennia because the young are accustomed to following the aged.
4 A gerontocracy: The President is elected, but only those over 45 (retirement age) can vote.
5 But in practice Geneva was a patrician gerontocracy, dominated by a few families.
6 Although the population is now mainly black or mulatto and young, its rulers form a mainly white gerontocracy.
7 For the citizens of China, Indonesia, and Russia, which together account for over 1/4 of the world's population, a sickly gerontocracy means perpetual speculation and uncertainty.
8 But by picking Mr Tanigaki over younger guns with ambitions to shake up the party's gerontocracy, the LDP shows that its eyes are still fixed on the past—and has not learned many lessons from defeat.
9 The Regent found the idea odd-as he had the puzzling gerontocracy the Robotech Masters had favored.
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