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
Recent Examples of bureaucrat from the Web
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Not be run by a bunch of bureaucrats based in Brussels.
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The home ministry, say AAP supporters, has handicapped the city administration by serially declining to appoint bureaucrats to vacant posts, transferring those judged sympathetic to the AAP and installing BJP loyalists instead.
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That effort to placate has only invited a new round of ridicule from honey and maple syrup producers, who see the FDA effort as the epitome of Washington bureaucrats run amok.
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The decision, spearheaded by a government panel led by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, follows a string of misconduct incidents involving senior bureaucrats.
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When hiring and firing decisions have to be validated by bureaucrats, few entrepreneurs want to set up large factories.
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Writing for a six-justice majority, Justice Kagan found that agency officers wielding the ALJs’ powers cannot be appointed by midlevel bureaucrats, shielded from the transparency and accountability that the Constitution’s process ensures.
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When his turn came, in mid-2016, lawyers presented the panel of U.S. government bureaucrats with a letter of endorsement from the man who guarded him a decade earlier.
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Under the new system, the president forms government, appoints ministers, vice presidents and high-level bureaucrats.
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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.
Origin and Etymology of bureaucrat
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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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