BUREAUCRAT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bureaucrat mean? 

• BUREAUCRAT (noun)
  The noun BUREAUCRAT has 1 sense:

1. an official of a bureaucracy

  Familiarity information: BUREAUCRAT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUREAUCRAT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An official of a bureaucracy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

administrative official; bureaucrat

Hypernyms ("bureaucrat" is a kind of...):

functionary; official (a worker who holds or is invested with an office)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bureaucrat"):

bean counter (an accountant or bureaucrat who is believed to place undue emphasis on the control of expenditures)

paper-pusher (a clerk or bureaucrat who does paperwork)

procurator ((ancient Rome) someone employed by the Roman Emperor to manage finance and taxes)

assessor; tax assessor (an official who evaluates property for the purpose of taxing it)

collector of internal revenue; exciseman; internal revenue agent; tax collector; taxman (someone who collects taxes for the government)

taxer (a bureaucrat who levies taxes)