gerontocratic

Variant of gerontocracy

noun

  1. government by old men
  2. pl. gerontocracies a governing group composed of old men

Origin: altered (modeled on -cracy) < Fr gérontocratie < Gr geronto- (see gerontology) + -kratia, -cracy

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