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bu⋅reau⋅crat

  [byoor-uh-krat]
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–noun
1. an official of a bureaucracy.
2. an official who works by fixed routine without exercising intelligent judgment.
Origin:
1835–45; < F bureaucrate. See bureau, -crat

Related forms:
bu⋅reau⋅crat⋅ism  [byoor-uh-krat-iz-uhm, byoo-rok-ruh-tiz-] , noun
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bu·reau·crat   (byŏŏr'ə-krāt')   
n.  
  1. An official of a bureaucracy.
  2. An official who is rigidly devoted to the details of administrative procedure.
bu'reau·crat'ic adj., bu'reau·crat'i·cal·ly adv.
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Bureaucrat

Bu*reau"crat\, n. An official of a bureau; esp. an official confirmed in a narrow and arbitrary routine. --C. Kingsley.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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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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