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 disabled protesters went to battle for a law that looks after all of us, even the bureaucrats opposing it all along the way.
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Rebekah Taussig, TIME, 19 Feb. 2025
Mayor Todd Gloria fired the most powerful bureaucrat in city government Tuesday as part of his ongoing effort to balance the city's budget with a $258 million looming shortfall.
—Andrew Keatts, Axios, 18 Feb. 2025
Occasionally, the president would chime in to echo Mr. Musk about the corruption of various unnamed bureaucrats or to otherwise offer vague pronouncements supporting his theory of the case.
—Shawn McCreesh, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2025
Itay’s official cinematic and cultural organizations and departments have partnered effectively with the Venice Festival, even if those partnerships were often fraught with pressures as competing arts fiefdoms set bureaucrat against bureaucrat.
—Steven Gaydos, Variety, 18 Feb. 2025
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Rebekah Taussig, TIME, 19 Feb. 2025
Mayor Todd Gloria fired the most powerful bureaucrat in city government Tuesday as part of his ongoing effort to balance the city's budget with a $258 million looming shortfall.
—Andrew Keatts, Axios, 18 Feb. 2025
Occasionally, the president would chime in to echo Mr. Musk about the corruption of various unnamed bureaucrats or to otherwise offer vague pronouncements supporting his theory of the case.
—Shawn McCreesh, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2025
Itay’s official cinematic and cultural organizations and departments have partnered effectively with the Venice Festival, even if those partnerships were often fraught with pressures as competing arts fiefdoms set bureaucrat against bureaucrat.
—Steven Gaydos, Variety, 18 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bureaucrat
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The New York man charged with what police said was a racially motivated attack of a Black hotel clerk in Mystic nearly four years ago has filed a lawsuit seeking $500,000 from his former lawyers.—
Greg Smith,
Hartford Courant,
1 Mar. 2025
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According to the Will County circuit court clerk’s office, Czuba is scheduled for sentencing on May 2.—
Sophia Tareen and Melissa Perez Winder,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Feb. 2025
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Dwight Howard, the best player on the franchise’s 2008-09 Eastern Conference championship team and Orlando’s career leader in total points, rebounds and blocks, will be inducted into the Magic’s Hall of Fame later this month, team officials announced Thursday night.—
Josh Robbins,
The Athletic,
7 Mar. 2025
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Adams has denied those allegations and the quid pro quo, as has Trump’s DOJ officials.—
Molly Crane-Newman,
New York Daily News,
6 Mar. 2025
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As the German journalist Ronen Steinke argues in his own first-rate biography, Bauer’s greatest achievement was a sprawling trial of some 20 German officers and functionaries at Auschwitz, held in a Frankfurt courtroom in the mid-60s.—
Gary J. Bass,
New York Times,
22 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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Related article Cabinet officials caught off guard and frustrated by Musk’s directives to federal employees A second email from OPM early Monday evening told workers they were not required to reply, which didn’t clear much up.—
Jeanne Sahadi,
CNN,
27 Feb. 2025
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Between fiscal years 2015 to 2019, agency inspectors general substantiated only 100 allegations of employee time and attendance misconduct or fraud out of a federal workforce of around 2.1 million employees (the GAO report did not include postal workers).—
Laura Doan,
CBS News,
27 Feb. 2025
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Start doing everything within your power to drive, support, and reward those high priority behaviors in every employee within your sphere.—
Bruce Tulgan,
Forbes,
26 Feb. 2025
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Environment Forest Service layoffs will leave the U.S. more prone to wildfires, employees say A 2024 Pew Research Center poll showed that the park service had the most favorable rating of any government agency at 76%, with strong support from a majority of both Democrats and Republicans.—
Rachel Treisman,
NPR,
26 Feb. 2025
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“Bureaucrat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bureaucrat. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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