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#TerminologyTuesday: Meritocracy

In today’s post, we continued with our TerminologyTuesday series and looked at the word ‘meritocracy’.

Sources used:

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/meritocracy

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/meritocracy

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/oct/19/the-myth-of-meritocracy-who-really-gets-what-they-deserve

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