Crossword clues for bureaucratese
bureaucratese
The Collaborative International Dictionary
bureaucratese \bureaucratese\ n. the formal and often obscure style of writing characteristic of some government officials; officialese; -- it is characterized by euphemisms, circumlocutions, vague abstractions, and circumlocutions.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A style of language, typically used by bureaucrats, that uses jargon or euphemism to the detriment of broader understanding. 2 Any language containing many non-essential words intended to imply more importance or intelligence than is actually present.
Usage examples of "bureaucratese".
Yesterday's warriors retire and new ones inherit the stars and the offices, and so it goes through generations, until at last every office is filled with men who have never heard a shot fired in anger or known a single problem that good, sound staff work, carefully couched in bureaucratese, could not "manage" satisfactorily.
Cottman IV was described as primitive in the little information she had been able to get her hands on, but Margaret knew perfectly well that this only meant, in Terran bureaucratese, that there were not com booths on every corner, or a vid-deck in every home.
I checked back in the single sheet from a county social worker who had visited the home and, reading between the lines of bureaucratese, inferred that the mother hadn’t wanted the child either but had given in to the court’s ruling.
The rationale, translated from the bureaucratese, was that space was so limited in these courses that the University wanted to guarantee that the students who signed up for them would be the ones who would get the most out of them.