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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bureaucrat
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 bureaucrats, permits and papers, forms, prohibitions, repressions.
federal
▪ These laws, they argued, had given federal bureaucrats excessive power to control use of private property.
local
▪ Too often, policies have worked only or mainly to the benefit of the rural elite or the local bureaucrats.
▪ Council leaders will in turn sit on larger district bodies, and will have all-important control of police and local bureaucrats.
▪ As so often, local bureaucrats have been protected by national bureaucrats who fear that they will be tarnished by association.
senior
▪ Lastly conservation programmes often fail, and senior bureaucrats may have to take the blame.
■ NOUN
government
▪ Municipal mayors, heads of nonprofit social service agencies, government bureaucrats, contractors and political party officials have all faced charges.
▪ Even the highest-ranking government bureaucrats generally live in modest government-owned housing.
▪ But for government bureaucrats the privileges more than compensate for their paltry official salaries of a few hundred dollars a month.
▪ A recent Mainichi Shimbun newspaper poll found that only 10 percent of respondents thought government bureaucrats seek to fulfill the public good.
▪ Getting Government bureaucrats to take local problems seriously has proved a major headache for a group of village campaigners.
▪ It is a creature of government bureaucrats, yet it is the soul of new enterprise and entrepreneurship.
state
▪ More specifically, Weber envisaged state bureaucrats as of key importance in creating this autonomy.
▪ Crucially, from Weber's perspective, the values and actions of state bureaucrats tend to override the policies of elected politicians.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But taking power from the politicians, businessmen and bureaucrats does not of itself make power disappear.
▪ He was far from being a stuffy bureaucrat.
▪ Plenty of obstacles, from tax codes to bureaucrats, remain.
▪ The bureaucrats imposed rules and regulations on big business.
▪ These women work harder and with more style than any bureaucrat or professor, and they're much more interesting.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bureaucrat

Bureaucrat \Bu*reau"crat\, n. An official of a bureau; esp. an official confirmed in a narrow and arbitrary routine.
--C. Kingsley.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bureaucrat

1839, from French bureaucrate (19c.); see bureaucracy.

Wiktionary
bureaucrat

n. An official who is part of a bureaucracy

WordNet
bureaucrat

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

Wikipedia
Bureaucrat

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 staff members in an agency, excluding higher-ranked managers, or so that it only signifies officials who perform certain functions, such as those who work "desk jobs" (the French word for "desk" being bureau, though bureau can also be translated as "office").

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.