bureaucrat
bureaucrat
Definition
bu·reau·crat (byo̵or′ə krat′)
noun
an official in a bureaucracy, esp. one who follows a routine in a mechanical, unimaginative way, insisting on proper forms, petty rules, etc.
bu′·reau·crat′ic adjective
bu′·reau·crat′i·cally adverb
bureaucrat
Synonyms
bureaucrat
Usage Examples
Possessives
- pen: Another half dozen lie within the urban area, outwith the Boro only by the whim of a bureaucrat's pen.
Converse of subject
- run: We all know the EU is run by bureaucrats.
- decide: Under Labor and the Conservatives, far too much has been decided by bureaucrats in London.
Converse of object
- appoint: By then the trade unions were largely controlled by bureaucrats newly appointed by Lechín and the MNR.
- employ: Like the multinational companies, the state employs salaried bureaucrats whose decisions can have a massive impact on a local economy.
- become: LVT could so easily become a bureaucrats ' banquet.
- have: Petty bureaucrats have great bureaucrats upon their backs to bite ' em.
- include: The trade union bureaucracy, including the 'left' bureaucrats supported by the Communist Party, were heavily implicated in productivity deals.
Adjective modifier
- faceless: How short a memory do these faceless bureaucrats think the public of the city have?
- unelected: We have been dictated to by unelected bureaucrats in Brussels for far too long.
- unaccountable: Surrendering such sovereignty to un-elected and unaccountable bureaucrats in Brussels is not an option I could ever support.
- Stalinist: The tone was otherwise set by Thorez, one of the most important Stalinist bureaucrats in Western Europe.
- petty: Petty bureaucrats have great bureaucrats upon their backs to bite ' em.
- corrupt: The European Union is run by an unaccountable coterie of corrupt bureaucrats.
Noun used with modifier
- union: In fact there was support from some union bureaucrats.
- trade: Her central argument being that a general strike is not a sterile demand, artificially created in the minds of timid trade union bureaucrats.
- government: Her husband, Justin, a faceless, government bureaucrat at the British High Commission in Nairobi sets out to find the killer.
- NHS: They believe the blame for allowing this lies with upper tiers of NHS bureaucrats.
- state: Nationalization could simply result in industry being run by state bureaucrats, not workers.
- street: National service frameworks and UK general practitioners: street level bureaucrats at work?
bureaucrat Quotes
Cover your assöthe bureaucrat's method of protecting his posterior from posterity.
There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem. See Frost 338:84.
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