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administrative official

n. an official of a bureaucracy [syn: bureaucrat]

Usage examples of "administrative official".

But Abbas Effendi, - bowing towards the Egyptian - 'the administrative official, is of quite a different kind: he has come to pay his respects, to assure you that everything in the civilian line - camels, tents, food- has been prepared, and to say that should you find anything wanting he would be happy to supply it.