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bureaucrat|ˈbjʊərəʊkræt|
[a. F. bureaucrate, f. as prec.: cf. aristocrat.]
An official who endeavours to concentrate administrative power in his bureau; a member of a bureaucracy; sometimes = bureaucratist.
1842Motley Let. 10 Jan. (1889) I. 94, I don't know whether I have ever described to you the great bureaucrat [Count Nesselrode] of the great autocrat [Emperor of Russia]. 1850Kingsley Alt. Locke xx. (D.) He had..done dirty work for Dublin Castle bureaucrats. Ibid. xli. (D.) The tyrants of the earth..the plutocrats and bureaucrats. 1870Daily News 3 Nov., That bureaucrat love of classification which is the curse of France. 1883Harper's Mag. June 107/1 A great centralizer and bureaucrat. |