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bureaucrat
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun bureaucrat has 1 sense
- bureaucrat(n = noun.person) administrative official - an official of a bureaucracy; Array has particulars: bean counter, paper-pusher, procurator, assessor, tax assessor, collector of internal revenue, exciseman, internal revenue agent, tax collector, taxman, taxer
is a kind of functionary, official
CIDE DICTIONARY
bureaucrat, n.
An official of a bureau; esp. an official confirmed in a narrow and arbitrary routine. C. Kingsley. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
bureaucrat, n.
1 an official in a bureaucracy.
2 an inflexible or insensitive administrator.
1 an official in a bureaucracy.
2 an inflexible or insensitive administrator.
Derivative
bureaucratic adj. bureaucratically adv.
Etymology
F bureaucrate (as BUREAUCRACY)
ROGET THESAURUS
bureaucrat
Director
N director, manager, governor, rector, comptroller, superintendent, supervisor, straw boss, intendant, overseer, overlooker, supercargo, husband, inspector, visitor, ranger, surveyor, aedile, moderator, monitor, taskmaster, master, leader, ringleader, demagogue, corypheus, conductor, fugleman, precentor, bellwether, agitator, caporal, choregus, collector, file leader, flugelman, linkboy, guiding star, adviser, guide, pilot, helmsman, steersman, steermate, wire-puller, driver, whip, Jehu, charioteer, coachman, carman, cabman, postilion, vetturino, muleteer, arriero, teamster, whipper in, head, head man, head center, boss, principal, president, speaker, chair, chairman, chairwoman, chairperson, captain, superior, mayor, vice president, prime minister, premier, vizier, grand vizier, eparch, officer, functionary, minister, official, red-tapist, bureaucrat, man in office, Jack in office, office bearer, person in authority, statesman, strategist, legislator, lawgiver, politician, statist, statemonger, Minos, Draco, arbiter, boss, political dictator, board, secretary, secretary of state, Reis Effendi, vicar, steward, factor, agent, bailiff, middleman, foreman, clerk of works, landreeve, factotum, major-domo, seneschal, housekeeper, shepherd, croupier, proctor, procurator, ex officio.
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