Definition of bureaucrat
: a member of a bureaucracy
- goverment bureaucrats
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Examples of bureaucrat in a Sentence
the bureaucrats at the town hall seem to think that we need a building permit to build a tree house
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Now, a character who is defined by his roguish nature and independence is nominally defined by a bureaucrat who wasn’t particularly creative.
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It's been well documented that the Trump White House has filled federal agencies with bureaucrats whose life work is destroying the very agencies they've been assigned to.
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One such person is Oleg Igorevich Burov (played by Costa Ronin), a KGB bureaucrat who faces increasingly risky assignments and entanglements all while being типа красавчик (totally kind of hot).
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Whatever the face of social media is, people are more than willing to sacrifice this abstract notion of privacy that Russell’s bureaucrats care about in pursuit of this community thing.
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Or disloyal politicians, bureaucrats, bankers or judges.
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According to authorities, Sanji Ram, a retired bureaucrat, hatched a conspiracy to kill the girl in an effort to drive the nomads from the area.
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Díaz-Canel, an electrical engineer by training and a career bureaucrat, has been careful to avoid those snares.
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If Thayer's amendment were to become law, politicians and government bureaucrats who want to do something a bit sketchy would simply start communicating using personal devices rather than government computers and phones.
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Did You Know?
In French, a bureau is a desk, so bureaucracy means basically "government by people at desks". Despite the bad-mouthing they often get, partly because they usually have to stick so close to the rules, bureaucrats do almost all the day-to-day work that keeps a government running. The idea of a bureaucracy is to split up the complicated task of governing a large country into smaller jobs that can be handled by specialists. Bureaucratic government is nothing new; the Roman empire had an enormous and complex bureaucracy, with the bureaucrats at lower levels reporting to bureaucrats above them, and so on up to the emperor himself.
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BUREAUCRAT Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of bureaucrat for English Language Learners
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: a person who is one of the people who run a government or big company and who does everything according to the rules of that government or company : a person who is part of a bureaucracy
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