meritocratic
記事の内容が重なってしまいますが，Lee Kuan Yen氏が，91歳が亡くなりました。Lee氏は，シンガポールの経済発展に多大な貢献し，成長の礎を築いたと考えられます。取り上げたい単語は"meritocratic"です。『Wisdom英和辞典第三版』（三省堂）によると「能力主義，実力主義」などという意味がありました。ODには"meritocracy"で"Government or the holding of power by people selected according to merit"と定義されております。国を発展させていくためには，適材適所に人員を配置する必要があるのだと思います。（Ume）
Singapore's founding father Lee Kuan Yew dies at 91
A charismatic figure, Mr Lee co-founded the People's Action Party (PAP), which has governed Singapore since 1959, and was its first prime minister.
The Cambridge-educated lawyer led Singapore through merger with, and then separation from, Malaysia.
Speaking after the split in 1965, he pledged to build a meritocratic, multi-racial nation. But tiny Singapore - with no natural resources - needed a new economic model.
"We knew that if we were just like our neighbours, we would die," Mr Lee told the New York Times in 2007.
"We had to produce something which is different and better than what they have."
