as in clerk
a worker in a government agency
the bureaucrats at the town hall seem to think that we need a building permit to build a tree house
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Recent Examples of bureaucrat
The second con is to blame bureaucrats at the California Air Resources Board — even though its mostly gubernatorial appointees are precisely following the green Democratic agenda.
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U T Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Apr. 2025
That’s hundreds of billions of your tax dollars flushed down the drain without swamp bureaucrats blinking an eye.
—Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 3 Apr. 2025
Ann's most loyal friend on the show was Poehler's type-A local bureaucrat Leslie Knope, and the two explain on the Good Hang interview that their friendship predated Parks' 2009 premiere by several years.
—Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 3 Apr. 2025
That is complicit with scheming orchestrated by politicized bureaucrats.
—Jack Fowler, National Review, 7 Apr. 2025
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U T Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Apr. 2025
That’s hundreds of billions of your tax dollars flushed down the drain without swamp bureaucrats blinking an eye.
—Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 3 Apr. 2025
Ann's most loyal friend on the show was Poehler's type-A local bureaucrat Leslie Knope, and the two explain on the Good Hang interview that their friendship predated Parks' 2009 premiere by several years.
—Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 3 Apr. 2025
That is complicit with scheming orchestrated by politicized bureaucrats.
—Jack Fowler, National Review, 7 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bureaucrat
Noun
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The photo album belonged to Karl Höcker, a former bank clerk who came to Auschwitz to be commandant Richard Baer’s right-hand man.—
Karen D'Souza,
Mercury News,
18 Apr. 2025
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The checkout clerks at my local Stop & Shop have all but disappeared.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
14 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Migrant workers who come to Mina-Rau are common, and the farmhand labor is so needed that officials usually look the other way when undocumented workers don’t have a visa, like the Ferrix crew.—
James Grebey,
Vulture,
23 Apr. 2025
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Patrick died Sunday of natural causes in Fairfax, Virginia, officials from his hometown of Clarksburg, West Virginia, announced.—
Mike Barnes,
HollywoodReporter,
23 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Unlike the party functionaries picked previously, all three grew up in the labor movement.—
John Samuelsen,
New York Daily News,
11 Feb. 2025
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The play drew on the verbatim testimony of SS officers, Nazi functionaries and camp survivors, to reconstruct the genocidal horror in harrowing, undeniable detail.—
Scott Roxborough,
The Hollywood Reporter,
27 Jan. 2025
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The official number of workers in China’s cities last year was 473.45 million.—
Evelyn Cheng,
CNBC,
28 Apr. 2025
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The tens of thousands of federal workers who have been cut from their jobs are not the only ones dealing with financial uncertainty.—
Katia Riddle,
NPR,
28 Apr. 2025
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Such understanding needs to be there for employees with and without children.—
Lieke ten Brummelhuis,
Forbes.com,
27 Apr. 2025
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Sikes is survived by his wife, Amber, who is also an employee of the sheriff’s office in Columbia County, Georgia.—
Jason Volack,
ABC News,
27 Apr. 2025
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“Bureaucrat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bureaucrat. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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