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ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICIAL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An official of a bureaucracy
Synonyms:
administrative official; bureaucrat
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("administrative official" is a kind of...):
functionary; official (a worker who holds or is invested with an office)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "administrative official"):
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)
assessor; tax assessor (an official who evaluates property for the purpose of taxing it)
collector of internal revenue; exciseman; internal revenue agent; tax collector; taxman (someone who collects taxes for the government)
taxer (a bureaucrat who levies taxes)
