bureaucrat
noun/ˈbjʊərəkræt/
/ˈbjʊrəkræt/
(often disapproving)- an official working in an organization or a government department, especially one who follows the rules of the department too strictly
- He was just another faceless bureaucrat.
- battles between political appointees and career bureaucrats
- We got caught up in the endless red tape of local bureaucrats.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- faceless
- corrupt
- unelected
- …
Word Originmid 19th cent.: from French bureaucrate, from bureaucratie, from bureau, originally ‘baize’ (used to cover writing desks), from Old French burel, probably from bure ‘dark brown’, based on Greek purros ‘red’.
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