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- noun UK The section of the
left-wing political establishment typically educated atpolytechnics (or similar new universities)
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Examples
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To put in a member of the old "polyocracy" is the precise reverse of this Government's wider educational aims.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph Charles Moore 2012
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Among the most important of these were the dynamism of the Party before 1933, its political alliance as a "totalitarian" movement with Germany's authoritarian elites, the personal absolutism of Hitler as Führer, and ” as a consequence of this triad ” the proliferation after 1933 of competitive and unco-ordinated power centres, or what Broszat calls the "polyocracy" of the Nazi state.
Dissent on Broszat Caplan, Jane 1982
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