| 单词 | bureaucrat |
| 释义 | bureaucrat (once / 971 pages) n A bureaucrat is an administrative official who works for the government. You brought the budget office bureaucrat a book about literacy, hoping to convince him you need more funding for the library. The word bureaucrat comes from bureaucracy, which means a system of government where state officials make decisions instead of elected ones. In America, bureaucrat often has a negative ring to it because some people think they make procedures too complicated and time-consuming — driving people crazy but ensuring they, the bureaucrats, stay busy processing it. WORD FAMILYbureaucrat: bureaucracy, bureaucrats+/bureaucracy: bureaucracies, bureaucratic/bureaucratic: bureaucratically USAGE EXAMPLESHe was not a youthful horse thief, though he once spent two days in jail for being rude to a local bureaucrat. New York Times(Dec 29, 2016) Both traded on voters’ frustration with what they perceived as pointy-headed bureaucrats telling them how to live their lives. The New Yorker(Dec 28, 2016) Moreover, even as the department’s bureaucracy grew and its budget ballooned, none of those bureaucrats taught any students anything. Washington Times(Dec 22, 2016) n an official of a bureaucracy Syn|Hypo|Hyper administrative official bean counter an accountant or bureaucrat who is believed to place undue emphasis on the control of expenditures paper-pushera clerk or bureaucrat who does paperwork procurator(ancient Rome) someone employed by the Roman Emperor to manage finance and taxes assessor, tax assessoran official who evaluates property for the purpose of taxing it collector of internal revenue, exciseman, internal revenue agent, tax collector, taxmansomeone who collects taxes for the government taxera bureaucrat who levies taxes listerassessor who makes out the tax lists Pilate, Pontius Pilatethe Roman procurator of Judea who ordered that Jesus be crucified (died in AD 36) functionary, official a worker who holds or is invested with an office |
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