as in clerk
a worker in a government agency the bureaucrats at the town hall seem to think that we need a building permit to build a tree house

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Recent Examples of bureaucrat Reviewing fake CDLs experts say are sometimes issued by unscrupulous American trucking schools or bribed Mexican bureaucrats. Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2025 Seeing that marmot offshoot with his twitchy little nose and beady eyes, clutched by an obscure local bureaucrat, conjures hope for the year to come. Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2025 The organization promotes recreational fishing and also provides input to Congress and federal agencies to manage fisheries sustainably, especially in Florida, where bureaucrats recently tried, and failed, to close vast areas to all fishing to protect a red snapper population that is thriving. Steve Waters, Miami Herald, 16 Aug. 2025 Inca bureaucrats recorded all the goings-on in their bustling empire using knotted cords called khipu, where the position and order of the knots represented numbers. ArsTechnica, 14 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for bureaucrat
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Noun
  • His teenage son, John Wesley, worked as a clerk who tuned stringed instruments.
    Sarah Biegelsen, Kansas City Star, 14 Sep. 2025
  • The application goes to the city clerk and then gets sent to The Citizen Advisory Committee on the Naming of Streets.
    Sophia Tiedge, jsonline.com, 11 Sep. 2025
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  • Israel's assault on Gaza since October 2023 has killed over 64,000 people, according to Palestinian health officials, while internally displacing almost all Gaza's population, and set off a starvation crisis.
    Jarrett Renshaw, USA Today, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Polish officials said Russian drones pierced their airspace 19 times from late Tuesday night to Wednesday morning.
    Ross O'Keefe, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Since then, there have been many more arrests—especially of regional functionaries at various levels.
    ANDREI KOLESNIKOV, Foreign Affairs, 8 Sep. 2025
  • But this newsletter is more focused on how Trump and his fawning functionaries speak about and for him.
    Chris Brennan, USA Today, 29 Aug. 2025
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  • After my long flight home, I was relieved that the late-night visitor turned out to be nothing more than city workers on the job (and their job in this case, while surprising, didn't turn out to be too destructive).
    Alesandra Dubin, Travel + Leisure, 9 Sep. 2025
  • After California’s deal with Uber and Lyft, other states have moved forward with similar attempts to allow workers to unionize.
    Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2025
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  • Al Jazeera employees even reportedly work with the terrorist group to identify protesters.
    Sean Durns, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP What To Know The Secret Service has launched an internal review into the screening failure on August 31, and the employee responsible for searching the guest's bag has been placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of that review, the agency said.
    Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025

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“Bureaucrat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bureaucrat. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.

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