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
In 2016, Thomas D. Homan was a frustrated immigration bureaucrat ready to call it quits.
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Alexandra Berzon, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2025
Rather than rejuvenating legislatures, term limits exacerbate dysfunction, turning over power to unelected lobbyists, bureaucrats, governors and party leaders while leaving Congress even less capable of solving the nation’s most pressing problems.
—Casey Burgat, Twin Cities, 16 Jan. 2025
Critics of Chevron argued that Congress too often delegated the work of interpreting policies to unelected bureaucrats working for federal agencies, says John Bergmayer, legal director at the consumer advocacy nonprofit Public Knowledge.
—Brian Barrett, WIRED, 3 Jan. 2025
But in Washington, the techno-libertarian pivot demands that regulators’ overreach be confined to the echo chambers of an ever-dwindling group of bureaucrats—and their rules remain unwritten.
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—Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., Forbes, 12 Jan. 2025
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Alexandra Berzon, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2025
Rather than rejuvenating legislatures, term limits exacerbate dysfunction, turning over power to unelected lobbyists, bureaucrats, governors and party leaders while leaving Congress even less capable of solving the nation’s most pressing problems.
—Casey Burgat, Twin Cities, 16 Jan. 2025
Critics of Chevron argued that Congress too often delegated the work of interpreting policies to unelected bureaucrats working for federal agencies, says John Bergmayer, legal director at the consumer advocacy nonprofit Public Knowledge.
—Brian Barrett, WIRED, 3 Jan. 2025
But in Washington, the techno-libertarian pivot demands that regulators’ overreach be confined to the echo chambers of an ever-dwindling group of bureaucrats—and their rules remain unwritten.
Follow me on Twitter.
—Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., Forbes, 12 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bureaucrat
Noun
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No attorney information was available on the county clerk’s website.—
Milena Malaver,
Miami Herald,
25 Jan. 2025
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And only 43 of Mississippi’s 82 chancery court clerks submitted data during the same period, despite a law from 2023 that required the courts to report psychiatric commitment data to the state.—
Gwen Dilworth,
ProPublica,
23 Jan. 2025
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Public health officials recommend shutting the toilet lid while flushing, if possible.—
Susanne Rust,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Jan. 2025
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The closures, which will force parents to scramble for options, are part of a trend of cuts and closures to early childhood programs as affordable child care remains out of reach for many families, despite promises to expand options from the mayor and governor, officials said.—
Josephine Stratman,
New York Daily News,
17 Jan. 2025
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The group’s materiel and manpower have been distributed across various security agencies, where they are managed by functionaries who are more loyal and less ambitious.—
Julian G. Waller,
Foreign Affairs,
14 Aug. 2024
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Everyone else, from cabinet members to party functionaries, is kept on a long leash.—
Constanze Stelzenmüller,
Foreign Affairs,
20 Apr. 2021
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The president also signed an executive order banning federal employees from working remotely on Monday, which may be part of a strategy to gut the federal workforce and replace vacancies with workers who are explicitly loyal to Trump.—
Kristen Waggoner,
Newsweek,
22 Jan. 2025
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Most Popular Trump’s moves to slash federal workers are raising alarms in Maryland Maryland’s finances are in the red.—
Brian Wacker,
Baltimore Sun,
22 Jan. 2025
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The president also signed an executive order banning federal employees from working remotely on Monday, which may be part of a strategy to gut the federal workforce and replace vacancies with workers who are explicitly loyal to Trump.—
Kristen Waggoner,
Newsweek,
22 Jan. 2025
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The couple alleges that they were racially profiled by employees of the airline after Williams, a Black man, was accused of trafficking his own wife, Shasholka, a Russian national.—
Shambhavi Rimal,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
21 Jan. 2025
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“Bureaucrat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bureaucrat. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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