Definition of bureaucrat
: a member of a bureaucracy
- goverment bureaucrats
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the bureaucrats at the town hall seem to think that we need a building permit to build a tree house
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This wasn’t your ordinary bureaucrat who just mishandles one document.
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This wasn’t your ordinary bureaucrat who just mishandles one document.
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Indeed, the girls have been bringing about civic improvements with a speed that would make any government bureaucrat envious.
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His speech came less than a week after authorities fatally shot a man at a Portland homeless shelter, a decision many locals have questioned, and as Wheeler is asking city bureaucrats to prepare for deep budget cuts.
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There’s also Chrisjen Avasarala (Shohreh Aghdashloo), the UN Assistant Undersecretary of Executive Administration, a foul-mouthed bureaucrat who’s trying to protect Earth and keep it from entering a bloody conflict.
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Trump is reorganizing the public land Leviathan - and DC bureaucrats are not happy.
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Career bureaucrats who never face the voters wield punishing authority with little to no accountability.
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The anti-Trump news is still determined to accomplish what so far the Clinton campaign, Obama holdovers, and deep-state bureaucrats have not: so discredit Trump the messenger that his message becomes irrelevant.
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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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