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Bureaucrat   Listen
noun
Bureaucrat  n.  An official of a bureau; esp. an official confirmed in a narrow and arbitrary routine.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Bureaucrat" Quotes from Famous Books



... the men were wavering. They had come there with the law behind them, but, from their youth up, some following visions that could never be realized, had hated the bureaucrat, and the rest, crippled by the want of dollars, had fought with frost and drought and hail. It was also plain that they felt the capture of the incendiary had given them an opportunity. Then, when a word would have turned the scale, Grant ...
— The Cattle-Baron's Daughter • Harold Bindloss

... just our few tens of thousands of members of the underground who see the need for overthrowing the Soviet bureaucracy. It's millions of average Russians in every walk of life and every strata, from top to bottom. What does the scientist think when some bureaucrat knowing nothing of his speciality comes into the laboratory and directs his work? What does the engineer in an automobile plant think when some silly politician decides that since cars in capitalist countries ...
— Revolution • Dallas McCord Reynolds



Words linked to "Bureaucrat" :   tax collector, functionary, taxman, internal revenue agent, tax assessor, official, administrative official



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