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
Western officials also need to restore a more sustained contact with the Kremlin bureaucrats and foreign-policy elites who will become the backbone of Russia’s state apparatus after Putin.
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Alexander Gabuev, Foreign Affairs, 17 Apr. 2025
What begins as a modest levy swells into a sprawling system, where bureaucrats decide who pays, who benefits, and who grovels for exemptions.
—Jon Fleischman, Oc Register, 12 Apr. 2025
Parents are far more invested in their child's academic success than any teacher, school administrator, or federal bureaucrat will ever be.
—Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Apr. 2025
Her mother had just died, so the last thing the caller needed was to be on hold forever waiting for a government agency bureaucrat to finally pick up the phone.
—Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 13 Apr. 2025
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Alexander Gabuev, Foreign Affairs, 17 Apr. 2025
What begins as a modest levy swells into a sprawling system, where bureaucrats decide who pays, who benefits, and who grovels for exemptions.
—Jon Fleischman, Oc Register, 12 Apr. 2025
Parents are far more invested in their child's academic success than any teacher, school administrator, or federal bureaucrat will ever be.
—Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Apr. 2025
Her mother had just died, so the last thing the caller needed was to be on hold forever waiting for a government agency bureaucrat to finally pick up the phone.
—Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 13 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bureaucrat
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Maggie Perkins left her teaching job to work as a clerk at Costco, and she’s never looked back 1 Comments Maggie Perkins left her teaching job to work at Costco in 2022, Perkins shares her journey and life on TikTok, where she's grown a following.—
Meredith Wilshere,
People.com,
26 Apr. 2025
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Colorado is fighting Trump administration pressure to help a county election clerk convicted of allowing Trump supporters to access election equipment after his 2020 defeat.—
Domenico Montanaro,
NPR,
25 Apr. 2025
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City officials amplified the advisory with a New York City air quality alert of its own.—
Theresa Braine,
New York Daily News,
23 Apr. 2025
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When efforts to repurpose it as a museum or hotel didn’t materialize, Okaloosa County officials stepped in with a forward-thinking plan: turn the SS United States into a reef teeming with life, a win-win boon to the marine environment and to eco-tourism.—
Skye Sherman,
Travel + Leisure,
23 Apr. 2025
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Unlike the party functionaries picked previously, all three grew up in the labor movement.—
John Samuelsen,
New York Daily News,
11 Feb. 2025
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The play drew on the verbatim testimony of SS officers, Nazi functionaries and camp survivors, to reconstruct the genocidal horror in harrowing, undeniable detail.—
Scott Roxborough,
The Hollywood Reporter,
27 Jan. 2025
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The official number of workers in China’s cities last year was 473.45 million.—
Evelyn Cheng,
CNBC,
28 Apr. 2025
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The tens of thousands of federal workers who have been cut from their jobs are not the only ones dealing with financial uncertainty.—
Katia Riddle,
NPR,
28 Apr. 2025
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Such understanding needs to be there for employees with and without children.—
Lieke ten Brummelhuis,
Forbes.com,
27 Apr. 2025
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Sikes is survived by his wife, Amber, who is also an employee of the sheriff’s office in Columbia County, Georgia.—
Jason Volack,
ABC News,
27 Apr. 2025
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“Bureaucrat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bureaucrat. Accessed 5 May. 2025.
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