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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)
n
1: an official of a bureaucracy [syn: bureaucrat, administrative official]
Merriam Webster's
noun Date: 1839 a member of a bureaucracy
Oxford Reference Dictionary
n. 1 an official in a bureaucracy. 2 an inflexible or insensitive administrator. Derivatives: bureaucratic adj. bureaucratically adv. Etymology: F bureaucrate (as BUREAUCRACY)
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
Bureaucrat Bu*reau"crat, n. An official of a bureau; esp. an official confirmed in a narrow and arbitrary routine. --C. Kingsley.
Collin's Cobuild Dictionary
(bureaucrats) Bureaucrats are officials who work in a large administrative system. You can refer to officials as bureaucrats especially if you disapprove of them because they seem to follow rules and procedures too strictly. The economy is still controlled by bureaucrats. N-COUNT: usu pl [disapproval]
