English
Noun
en-noun
- An official who is part of a bureaucracy
Usage notes
sense|an official The term term||bureaucrat, while often used in a professional and respectful manner, is oftentimes disdained by those who work in organizations, especially governmental organizations. This is due to connotations of rigidity, indifference, and especially laziness that the term can sometimes connote (the latter especially reflected in the oft-repeated derisive term term||lazy bureaucrat). As a result, many workers in organizations, especially governmental organizations, prefer terms such as term|manager, term|public manager, term|public servant, term|public official, etc.
Related terms
bureaucracy
bureaucratic
Translations
trans-top|An official in a bureaucracy
Dutch: t|nl|bureaucraat|m
Esperanto: t|eo|burokrato|xs=Esperanto
Finnish: t+|fi|byrokraatti
French: t+|fr|fonctionnaire m|f
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Norwegian: t-|no|byråkrat|m
Portuguese: t-|pt|burocrata m|f
Russian: t|ru|б��ок�а�|trbjurokrát|scCyrl|m
Swedish: t-|sv|byråkrat|c
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fr:bureaucrat
io:bureaucrat
ru:bureaucrat
sv:bureaucrat
vi:bureaucrat
tr:bureaucrat
zh:bureaucrat
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