inheritocrat

English

Etymology

From inherit +‎ -o- +‎ -crat.

Noun

inheritocrat (plural inheritocrats)

  1. One who benefits from inherited wealth.
    • 2017 March 30, ex804, Greater Greater Washington‎[1]:
      Is a child with a loving family that happens to be poor worse off than the child of barely-functioning inheritocrats who want as little as possible to do with their children (“emotionally distant” is whitewashing things)?
    • 2024 November 17, Eliza Filby, “Bank of Mum and Dad: why we all now live in an ‘inheritocracy’”, in The Observer‎[2], →ISSN:
      If Tom was an inheritocrat, I spoke to many meritocrats, those who had made it in modern Britain with little parental help, but this came with much resentment.
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