bureaucrat
nounEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *péh₂wr̥ Proto-Hellenic *pāwər Ancient Greek πῦρ (pûr) Proto-Indo-European *-rós Proto-Hellenic *-rós Ancient Greek -ρός (-rós) Ancient Greek πῠρρός (pŭrrhós)bor. Latin burrus Latin burra Old French *bure Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -ulus Latin -ellus Old French -el Old French burel French bureau Proto-Indo-European *kret- Ancient Greek κρᾰ́τος (krắtos) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek -κρᾰτῐ́ᾱ (-krătĭ́ā)lbor. French -cratie French bureaucratie French bureaucratebor. English bureaucrat From French bureaucrate, equivalent to bureau + -crat.
- borrowed from bureaucrate
Definitions
An official who is part of a bureaucracy.
A user on a wiki with the right to change user access levels.
The neighborhood
- synonymadministrator
- synonymbureaucrat
- synonymclerk
- synonymmandarin
- synonympaper-pusher
- synonympen-pusher
- synonympencil pusher
- neighborbureaucracy
- neighbordull functionary
- neighborfaceless bureaucrat
- neighborofficial
- neighborperson
- neighborapparatchik
- neighborappointee
- neighborcivil servant
- neighborfunctionary
- neighborjack guardant
- neighborjack-in-office
- neighborminister
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for bureaucrat. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA