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bureaucrat

[byoor-uh-krat] / ˈbyʊər əˌkræt /
NOUN
government official
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But as Scott Solomon shows in “Becoming Martian: How Living in Space Will Change Our Bodies and Minds,” bureaucrats and policy wonks are drawing up plans, too.

From The Wall Street Journal

I remember very well the return of the veterans of Afghanistan and the famous phrase from the bureaucrats: 'I'm not the one who sent you there'.

From Barron's

It has arguably made her the country's most famous bureaucrat.

From BBC

“For the first time, it became less about bureaucrats and more about larger strategic issues,” Ms. Mohan says in a phone interview from Brussels.

From The Wall Street Journal

He isn’t a bureaucrat who can simply be swapped for another.

From The Wall Street Journal