单词 | bureaucratese |
释义 | bureaucratesen. Frequently depreciative. A type of language considered characteristic of bureaucrats or bureaucratic bodies, esp. in containing jargon or being opaque, euphemistic, or circumlocutory. Cf. officialese n. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > a language > register > [noun] > jargon > in particular literary contexts pamphletism1716 newspaper English1856 journalese1882 officialese1884 novelese1900 headlinese1916 bureaucratese1942 1942 Washington Post 2 June 18/5 Edgar Ansel Mowrer..is compiling a list of words and phrases most frequently used in the Capital. He calls it: ‘Bureaucratese’. 1971 Time 18 Jan. 30/3 Something is not quite right even at the state's cushiest ‘correctional facilities’ (bureaucratese for prisons). 1997 D. Johnson Le Divorce 45 I found..daunting..the rapid French phrases, the forms I had to fill out, written in a bureaucratese inscrutable in any language. 2012 Spectator (Nexis) 29 Dec. 15 [They will] evacuate their parliament buildings while major restorative work is undertaken. Or in the bureaucratese of the House of Commons Commission, ‘a staged comprehensive modernisation with full decant when essential’. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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