bureaucrat
noun
[ ˈbjʊərəkrat ]
• an official in a government department, in particular one perceived as being concerned with procedural correctness at the expense of people's needs.
• "the unemployed will be dealt with not by faceless bureaucrats but by individuals"
Similar:
official,
administrator,
office-holder,
office-bearer,
civil servant,
public servant,
government servant,
minister,
functionary,
appointee,
apparatchik,
mandarin,
jack-in-office,
Origin:
mid 19th century: from French bureaucrate, from bureaucratie (see bureaucracy).
