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bureaucrat

noun as in government official

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He concentrates on a handful of characters that includes a doctor, a bureaucrat, a criminal, a priest, and a journalist.

The EU needs another Greece or Portugal dragging down the euro like the EU needs another bureaucrat in Brussels.

After all, there will always be a bureaucrat, politician, or judge eager to set the limits on what is unacceptably offensive.

Faisal Khan, a 28-year-old government bureaucrat in Peshawar, says he would get fired or worse if he came out.

And he spent virtually all his career as a government bureaucrat—as an official at the Treasury Department and the New York Fed.

His former associates regarded him as a renegade; independent observers found in him an energetic and arbitrary bureaucrat.

The wealthy and the educated know how to placate the bureaucrat and get what they want.

What had become of the lesson in decorum which should have been taught to this vulgar little bureaucrat?

What does your worker think when he sees the bureaucrat living in luxury while his wage is a comparatively meager one?

The new Czar was greatly influenced by his former tutor, the reactionary bureaucrat Pobiedonostzev.

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On this page you'll find 11 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to bureaucrat, such as: administrator, civil servant, functionary, politician, public servant, and desk jockey.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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