| NOUN | person | bureaucrat, administrative official | an official of a bureaucracy |
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| Sounds | byuh'rahkrae.t; byuh'rowkrae.t | |
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| Rhymes | acrobat ... ziggurat: 63 rhymes with aet... | |
| Meaning | An official of a bureaucracy. | |
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| Synonym | administrative official | |
| 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 | |
| Adjectives | bureaucratic | of or relating to or resembling a bureaucrat or bureaucracy |
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