bureaucrat
Americannoun
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an official of a bureaucracy.
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an official who works by fixed routine without exercising intelligent judgment.
noun
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an official in a bureaucracy
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an official who adheres to bureaucracy, esp rigidly
Other Word Forms
- bureaucratism noun
Etymology
Origin of bureaucrat
From the French word bureaucrate, dating back to 1835–45. See bureau, -crat
Example Sentences
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Some of the sickest burns on the internet right now are coming from French bureaucrats.
Tesla is pushing back against California bureaucrats, suing the state’s Department of Motor Vehicles for accusing it of false advertising.
From Los Angeles Times
But now a cadre of bureaucrats in Paris’s gilded Quai d’Orsay are ditching their carefully worded communiqués in favor of a stream of real-time X posts that mix self-mockery and sarcasm…in English.
And, as lawyers and bureaucrats beaver away on finding new legal strategies for the president’s tariff policies, we could see at least a partial return to the high-stakes trade diplomacy of the past 13 months.
But as Scott Solomon shows in “Becoming Martian: How Living in Space Will Change Our Bodies and Minds,” bureaucrats and policy wonks are drawing up plans, too.
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