Thesaurus:bureaucrat

English

Noun

Sense: an official who is part of a bureaucracy

Synonyms
  • administrator
  • bureaucrat
  • clerk
  • mandarin (UK & Commonwealth)
  • paper-pusher (idiomatic, often derogatory)
  • pen-pusher (idiomatic, often derogatory)
  • pencil pusher (idiomatic, often derogatory)
Hypernyms
Hyponyms
Holonyms
Various

Further reading

  • “694. director” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
  • “bureaucrat” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.
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