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Bureaucrat Moderate

Bureaucrat has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

an official of a bureaucracy

2

An official who is part of a bureaucracy.

See Also
bureaucratic bureaucracy bureau businesscrat sir humphrey paper pusher czarocrat desk murderer
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
official
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
bean counter paper-pusher procurator tax assessor tax collector taxer

Origin

The word comes from the French bureaucrate, which combines bureau (desk) with -crat (ruler). It originally referred to an official who manages government records at a desk.

Rhyming Words
prat drat brat rrat crat grat erat frat derat sprat scrat torat carat virat herat curat jurat morat kirat qirat
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