bureaucrat
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5.6
- noun
- /ˈbjʊəroʊkræt/
:
burócrata
- Many people believe that a government bureaucrat cares more about rules than helping citizens.
- politicians and bureaucrats
- government bureaucrats
- welfare bureaucrats
Why should some government bureaucrat be paid more than I get?
- Why should some government bureaucrat be paid more than I get?
- And administrators are bureaucrats and bureaucrats are famously cowardly.
- Well, there is a an imperative in many bureaucracies that the bureaucrats abbreviate as CYA.
- You should not have school bureaucrats talking to our children about gender.
- This isn't some mid level, mid tier office bureaucrat promoting DEI.
- The White House can yell at but can't hire and fire most of the bureaucrats under its wing.
- And there are also mechanisms to complain about corruption and to hold bureaucrats to account for corrupt practices.
- So Kissinger often says in his early work, the temptation of the bureaucrat is to wait for more data.
- I mean, Trotsky mistrusted him and thought he was, you know, a mindless bureaucrat.
- And if you now need to retrieve it, then this is the job of a bureaucrat to find the right document at the right time.
- He says, quote, the oil price caps and the sanctions against Russia were quote, invented by bureaucrats with finance degrees.
- Not frontline staff, not nurses and teachers, bureaucrats, civil servants and bosses.
- We don't need bureaucrats to lecture us about how hard it is.
- Was I counselled by bureaucrat of heaven?
Examples
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Entrepreneurs may have to wait years while bureaucrats like these debate the merit of your idea.
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The middle class consists of doctors, county bureaucrats, shop owners, and bankers, for example.
Academic text (1991) -
Why should some government bureaucrat be paid more than I get?
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" For the whole war, his father had worked as a bureaucrat in the distribution of supplies.
Fiction book (1998) -
And if you now need to retrieve it, then this is the job of a bureaucrat to find the right document at the right time.
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Well, you're worth more than what some bureaucrat wrote down on a piece of paper 20 years ago.
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The way to get them to act less like bureaucrats was for them to own a substantial amount of stock.
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For better or worse, he is strictly an organization man, a bureaucrat, and not an ideologue.
Fiction book (1995) -
In nearly all cases, however, market participants and government bureaucrats receive and respond to the same information.
Academic text (1990) -
And there are also mechanisms to complain about corruption and to hold bureaucrats to account for corrupt practices.
Synonyms
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3.7
A person who works for a government or organization and has power to make and enforce rules
118
3.2
A person elected or appointed to carry out government work
43
3.0
A person who works for the government, elected or appointed
35
2.7
A person who works for a government department in a long-term job and is not elected
16
3.7
A person who works for the government and acts for it
8
7.7
A person who has an official job in a government or large organization
8
4.4
A person who has an official job with power and responsibility in a government or organization
1
4.4
A person who works for the state in an official job
1
4.4
A person who holds an official government job that is not military
1
4.4
A person who manages office work and makes official decisions in a government or large organization
How Senior
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word bureaucrat comes from two parts: bureau meaning 'desk' or 'office' and the ending -crat meaning 'rule' or 'power', as in democrat. So a bureaucrat is literally a person of the 'office', which helps explain why the word often means an official who follows rules and paperwork closely.