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bureaucrat

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
bureaucrat/ˈbjʊərəkrat/

▶noun a government official perceived as being overly concerned with procedural correctness.

– derivatives
bureaucratic adjective,
bureaucratically adverb.

'bureaucrat' also found in these Oxford entries:

bean counter - Eurocrat - mandarin - paper-pusher

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