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    BUREAUCRAT

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    An official of a bureaucracyplay

    Synonyms:

    administrative official; bureaucrat

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting people

    Hypernyms ("bureaucrat" 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 "bureaucrat"):

    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)

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