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bureaucrat
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Word definitions for bureaucrat in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1839, from French bureaucrate (19c.); see bureaucracy .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. An official who is part of a bureaucracy
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES faceless bureaucrat ▪ He had become just another faceless bureaucrat . COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE faceless ▪ He had become just another faceless bureaucrat . ▪ Without harassment, without secret police, faceless ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bureaucrat \Bu*reau"crat\, n. An official of a bureau; esp. an official confirmed in a narrow and arbitrary routine. --C. Kingsley.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an official of a bureaucracy [syn: administrative official ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A bureaucrat is a member of a bureaucracy and can compose the administration of any organization of any size, although the term usually connotes someone within an institution of government . Some usages restrict the term so that it only embraces lower-ranked ...
Usage examples of bureaucrat.
The bureaucrat trudged down the river road, passing his briefcase from hand to hand as its weight made his palms and fingers ache.
In the back room the bureaucrat related his conversation with the bartender to Chu.
The bureaucrat went back in for his briefcase, took out a handkerchief and mopped his brow.
Sucking powdered sugar from his fingers, the bureaucrat almost stumbled into a brawl.
The bureaucrat looked up at Mintouchian, and the rings continued to spin and fall within his mind.
As he handed his briefcase the phone, the bureaucrat could hear the last of his agent unraveling itself back into oblivion.
That morning, the doctor wind swept a swarm of barnacle flies inland, and when the bureaucrat awoke, the houseboat was encrusted with their shells.
The bureaucrat looked dully down at the metal cylinder he still held in his hand.
He is a bureaucrat, and his heroism is bureaucratic, with a genius for navigating cluttered fields.
A bureaucrat in some kind of sterile fluorescent-lit office complex is a fantastically efficient worker when awake, but he has this terrible problem waking up in the A.
The stream of platform foot-traffic opens around the bureaucrat and the stunned boy and the litter of packages.
The bureaucrat gently loads the kid back up with packages, neatens them.
Paul Anthony Heaven had also played the threatening supervisor in Wave Bye-Bye to the Bureaucrat, the Massachusetts State Commissioner for Beach and Water Safety in Safe Boating Is No Accident, and a Parkinsonian corporate auditor in Low-Temperature Civics.
He was as caught up in trying to build a new Mars as a Soviet bureaucrat trying to build a new order.
The bureaucrat stood before a set of gilded doors that opened into the Hall of Supreme Harmony.