One skilled in technics or in the practical arts.(noun)
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Use "technicist" in a sentence
"The first cynicism argues that the ANC government is creating a 'technicist' approach to governance, meaning that all policy is reduced to technical jargon and bureaucratic reasoning."
"Strategies that imply a technicist approach, that simply await delivery from above, will surely not come to terms with the complex and changing structures of marginalisation, exclusion and power in South Africa."
"Over the past three years, policy formation and implementation became extremely technicist in character."