NOUN | person | administrative official, bureaucrat | an official of a bureaucracy |
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Meaning | An official of a bureaucracy. | |
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Synonym | bureaucrat | |
Narrower | bean counter | An accountant or bureaucrat who is believed to place undue emphasis on the control of expenditures |
paper-pusher | A clerk or bureaucrat who does paperwork | |
procurator | (ancient Rome) someone employed by the Roman Emperor to manage finance and taxes | |
tax assessor, assessor | An official who evaluates property for the purpose of taxing / taxing it | |
tax collector, taxman, exciseman, collector of internal revenue, internal revenue agent | someone who collects taxes for the government | |
taxer | A bureaucrat who levies taxes | |
Broader | official, functionary | A worker who holds or is invested with an office |
Spanish | burócrata | |
Catalan | buròcrata |
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