mediocrat

noun5

1. •
   A politician or bureaucrat of mediocre ability.

   • The Oligarchs — remnants from Brazil's colonial past — are sub-divided into the well-intentioned but provincial "mediocrats" and the more highly powered "kleptocrats" — thieves of the first order. — 1993
2. •
   An ordinary person with no special abilities; a mediocrity.

   • Follow the big top, even if you're only one of the crowd, only a mediocrat, as Vesta says. — 1928
3. •
   An advocate of mediocracy; one who prefers to avoid controversy, change and risk.

   • Perhaps this Utopia of the mediocrats is not so far off; perhaps it is time for the meritocracy to assert itself. — 1977
4. •
   A politician or leader from a middle-class background.

   • Increasingly, it is through these media-anointed mediocrats — Reverend Al Sharpton for New York's black dispossessed microculture, to cite one example — that microcultures talk to one another. — 1997
5. •
   A plant species that thrives in moderate conditions.

   • In our opinion it is impossible to consider Taxodiaceae as a characteristic index of a warm climate and therefore they cannot be included in the typical mediocrats group, — 1979