bureaucrat
noun
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In French, a bureau is a desk, so bureaucracy means basically "government by people at desks". Despite the bad-mouthing they often get, partly because they usually have to stick so close to the rules, bureaucrats do almost all the day-to-day work that keeps a government running. The idea of a bureaucracy is to split up the complicated task of governing a large country into smaller jobs that can be handled by specialists. Bureaucratic government is nothing new; the Roman empire had an enormous and complex bureaucracy, with the bureaucrats at lower levels reporting to bureaucrats above them, and so on up to the emperor himself.
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Kaelan Deese, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 12 Mar. 2025
Eventually, some brilliant bureaucrats realized that humans are motivated by competition, and the Florida Python Challenge was born.
—Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 12 Mar. 2025
Modi's leadership in India has included a permissive stance on letting central bank bureaucrats run the show - in this respect, similar to China's overall stance on digital money.
—Roger Huang, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025
Trump doesn’t apologize for a secure border, for pursuing a trade policy that benefits American workers, for making the U.S. energy independent or for firing unelected bureaucrats who try to stop him.
—Susan Shelley, Orange County Register, 8 Mar. 2025
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“Bureaucrat.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bureaucrat. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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