Synonyms for bureaucrat


Grammar : Noun
Spell : byoo r-uh-krat
Phonetic Transcription : ˈbyʊər əˌkræt


Définition of bureaucrat

Origin :
  • 1839, from French bureaucrate (19c.); see bureaucracy.
  • noun government official
Example sentences :
  • Afraid to spit if some Washington bureaucrat wagged a finger.
  • Extract from : « Ten From Infinity » by Paul W. Fairman
  • I think that every bureaucrat is an outsider and was always such.
  • Extract from : « Virgin Soil » by Ivan S. Turgenev
  • People are dirty, so the bureaucrat says, let us make them wash.
  • Extract from : « Meccania » by Owen Gregory
  • The bureaucrat was as short in his address as he was in his stature.
  • Extract from : « The Confessions of a Collector » by William Carew Hazlitt
  • The wealthy and the educated know how to placate the bureaucrat and get what they want.
  • Extract from : « The Political Future of India » by Lajpat Rai
  • His rule will be that of thought and of commerce, not that of the bureaucrat and the soldier.
  • Extract from : « My Mission to London 1912-1914 » by Prince Lichnowsky
  • He was more of a bureaucrat and a lawyer than a diplomat or statesman.
  • Extract from : « Current History: A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times, May 1918 » by Various
  • He had not that artistic sense of his medium which distinguishes the statesman from the bureaucrat.
  • Extract from : « The Day of the Confederacy » by Nathaniel W. Stephenson
  • If I had known of the order, short work would have been made of the bureaucrat who issued it.
  • Extract from : « Theodore Roosevelt » by Theodore Roosevelt
  • The person to whom we made this declaration was cold and impenetrable as became a bureaucrat.
  • Extract from : « Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China » by Evariste Regis Huc

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