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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Some bureaucrats possess a greedy appetite for exercising power, whatever the cost to our democratic traditions.
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Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 20 July 2024
But summer is here, and even bureaucrats get beauty right from time to time—see, for proof, these three temporary public art works.
—The New Yorker, 5 July 2024
All four organizations publicly celebrated the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Chevron, which conservatives saw as the rightful curtailing of unelected bureaucrats’ authority.
—Josephine Rozzelle, CNBC, 10 July 2024
Things rarely work, and in the rare instance where bureaucrats stumble on something that does, politicians try to ruin it for everyone.
—Joanna Allhands, The Arizona Republic, 1 Aug. 2024
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Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 20 July 2024
But summer is here, and even bureaucrats get beauty right from time to time—see, for proof, these three temporary public art works.
—The New Yorker, 5 July 2024
All four organizations publicly celebrated the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Chevron, which conservatives saw as the rightful curtailing of unelected bureaucrats’ authority.
—Josephine Rozzelle, CNBC, 10 July 2024
Things rarely work, and in the rare instance where bureaucrats stumble on something that does, politicians try to ruin it for everyone.
—Joanna Allhands, The Arizona Republic, 1 Aug. 2024
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“Bureaucrat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bureaucrat. Accessed 2 Oct. 2024.
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