(bureaucrat)

  • 11bureaucrat — noun Date: 1839 a member of a bureaucracy …

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  • 12bureaucrat — bureaucratism /byoor euh krat iz euhm, byoo rok reuh tiz /, n. /byoor euh krat /, n. 1. an official of a bureaucracy. 2. an official who works by fixed routine without exercising intelligent judgment. [1835 45; < F bureaucrate. See BUREAU, CRAT]&#8230; …

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  • 13bureaucrat — noun An official who is part of a bureaucracy See Also: bureaucracy, bureaucratic …

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  • 14bureaucrat — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. functionary, official, apparatchik, mandarin, civil servant; see also administrator . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. government official, civil servant, administrator, politician, clerk, public servant, pencil pusher,&#8230; …

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  • 15bureaucrat — bu|reau|crat [ˈbjuərəkræt US ˈbjur ] n someone who works in a bureaucracy and uses official rules very strictly …

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  • 16bureaucrat — bu|reau|crat [ bjurə,kræt ] noun count * someone who is employed to help run an office or government department. This word can suggest that you do not like people like this because you think they have too much power and care too much about rules&#8230; …

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  • 17bureaucrat — [[t]bjʊ͟ərəkræt[/t]] bureaucrats N COUNT: usu pl (disapproval) Bureaucrats are officials who work in a large administrative system. You can refer to officials as bureaucrats especially if you disapprove of them because they seem to follow rules&#8230; …

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  • 18bureaucrat — bu·reau·crat || bjÊŠ(É™)rəʊkræt / n. government official, person who works in a bureaucracy; official whose duties are routine and uncreative …

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  • 19bureaucrat — noun a government official perceived as being overly concerned with procedural correctness. Derivatives bureaucratic adjective bureaucratically adverb …

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  • 20bureaucrat — noun (C) someone who works in a bureaucracy and uses official rules very strictly …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English