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bureaucrat Definition

bu·reau·crat (byo̵orə 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.

bureaucrat Related Forms
bu′·reau·cratic adjective bu′·reau·crati·cally adverb
bureaucrat Synonyms

bureaucrat

n.

functionary, official, apparatchik, mandarin, civil servant; see also administrator.

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.

—Safire,William

There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem. See Frost 338:84.

—Vidal, Gore originally Eugene Luther Vidal,Jr