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businesscrat

noun

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-West Germanic *bisīg Old English bisiġ Proto-Germanic *-in- Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti Proto-Germanic *-ōną Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Old English bisiġnes Middle English bisynes English business 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 blend English businesscrat Blend of business + bureaucrat.

  1. derived from bureaucrat blend English businesscrat Blend of business + bureaucrat
  2. derived from -cratie French bureaucratie French bureaucratebor

Definitions

  1. A corporate bureaucrat.

    • The ideal CIO must be both "a technocrat and a businesscrat at the same time," says Jerre Stead, chief executive officer at Square D Co., an electronics manufacturer in Palatine, Ill.
    • Citizens are just as frustrated by corporate bureaucrats — or "businesscrats" — in their daily dealings with banks, department stores, and credit card companies.
    • In the 1930s, the government and the private sector had switched stereotypical roles, with the entrepreneurial impulse coming from the executive branch and resistance to change coming from Main Street “businesscrats.”

  2. A person whose career includes acting both as a business executive and a government…

    A person whose career includes acting both as a business executive and a government bureaucrat in the Democratic Party in the United States.

    • "Businesscrats" had staffed the war agencies and they returned to private life at the end of the conflict.
    • Put a business executive up for senator as a Democrat, and you've got a Businesscrat. Maybe also an endangered species.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA