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Definition bureaucrat in British English

bureaucrat noun

[countable] noun
/ˈbjʊərəˌkræt/
1

someone who is employed to help run an office or government department. This word can suggest that you do not like people like this because you think they have too much power and care too much about rules and systems

Example

He said the laws were created by interfering bureaucrats.

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Definition bureaucrat in British English