Businesscrat
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A corporate bureaucrat.
"The ideal CIO must be both "a technocrat and a businesscrat at the same time," says Jerre Stead, chief executive officer at Square D Co., an electronics manufacturer in Palatine, Ill."
- 2 A person whose career includes acting both as a business executive and a government bureaucrat in the Democratic Party in the United States. US
""Businesscrats" had staffed the war agencies and they returned to private life at the end of the conflict."
Example
More examples"The ideal CIO must be both "a technocrat and a businesscrat at the same time," says Jerre Stead, chief executive officer at Square D Co., an electronics manufacturer in Palatine, Ill."
Etymology
Blend of business + bureaucrat.
Blend of business + Democrat coined by Gerald D. Nash and popularized by Louis Galambos in Competition and Cooperation: The Emergence of a National Trade Association (1966)
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