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bureaucrat
noun as in government official
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- desk-jockey
- officeholder
- pencil-pusher
Example Sentences
But in 2021, a low-level National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration bureaucrat banned anyone from swimming within 50 yards of Hawaiian spinner dolphins.
Now Vought has proposed using the current government shutdown as an opportunity to fire thousands of bureaucrats permanently instead of merely furloughing them temporarily.
Ms. Takaichi isn’t the bureaucrats’ cup of tea, and whether she can bend them to her will remains unclear.
Yet EU bureaucrats struggle to go against their instincts, and instead of lowering costs and pursuing deregulation, Brussels doubles down on its climate agenda at the world’s expense.
Yet now the organization backs Mr. Hawley’s bill that would empower Washington bureaucrats to dictate overbearing “contracts” that could destroy businesses and jobs.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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