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noun
1.
an official of a bureaucracy.
2.
an official who works by fixed routine without exercising intelligent judgment.
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Bureaucrat
is always a great word to know.
So is ort. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
Example Sentences
- But when it comes to government, the myth of the useless bureaucrat persists.
- Render your professional opinion and don't feel that you need to be a mindless bureaucrat.
- Egypt's new, privately owned media rushed to question the rather dour and professorial international bureaucrat.
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Word Origin & History
bureaucrat
1842, from Fr. bureaucrate (19c.); see bureaucracy.
EXPAND"bureaucrat, &c. The formation is so barbarous that all attempt at self-respect in pronunciation may perhaps as well be abandoned." [Fowler]
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American Heritage
Cultural Dictionary
bureaucrat [(byoor-uh-krat)]Someone who works in or controls a bureaucracy. The term is often used negatively to describe a petty, narrow-minded person. (See also conformity and organization man.)
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