He's a bureaucrat.
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Bureaucrat
//ˈbjʊəɹəkɹæt//
Synonyms for "bureaucrat" (15 found)
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Closest matches (3)
Noun(3 words)
Strong matches (5)
Related words (7)
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2 entrieshas context
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7 entriesis a
2 entriesrelated to
7 entriesTranslations
66 translations across 55 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- burokrat noun (an official in a bureaucracy)
Arabic
1 entries- بِيرُوقْرَاطِيّ noun (an official in a bureaucracy)
Armenian
1 entries- բյուրոկրատ noun (an official in a bureaucracy)
Asturian
1 entries- burócrata noun (an official in a bureaucracy)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- bürokrat noun (an official in a bureaucracy)
Belarusian
2 entries- бюракра́т noun (an official in a bureaucracy)
- бюракра́тка noun (an official in a bureaucracy)
Bulgarian
1 entries- бюрокра́т noun (an official in a bureaucracy)
Catalan
1 entries- buròcrata noun (an official in a bureaucracy)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 官僚 noun (an official in a bureaucracy)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 官僚 noun (an official in a bureaucracy)
Czech
2 entries- byrokrat noun (an official in a bureaucracy)
- byrokratka noun (an official in a bureaucracy)
Danish
1 entries- bureaukrat noun (an official in a bureaucracy)
Dutch
1 entries- bureaucraat noun (an official in a bureaucracy)
Esperanto
1 entries- burokrato noun (an official in a bureaucracy)
Estonian
1 entries- bürokraat noun (an official in a bureaucracy)
Finnish
1 entries- byrokraatti noun (an official in a bureaucracy)
French
1 entries- bureaucrate noun (an official in a bureaucracy)
Galician
1 entries- burócrata noun (an official in a bureaucracy)
Georgian
1 entries- ბიუროკრატი noun (an official in a bureaucracy)
German
2 entries- Bürokrat noun (an official in a bureaucracy)
- Bürokratin noun (an official in a bureaucracy)
Greek
1 entries- γραφειοκράτης noun (an official in a bureaucracy)
Hindi
3 entries- अफसर noun (an official in a bureaucracy)
- अफ़सर noun (an official in a bureaucracy)
- नौकरशाह noun (an official in a bureaucracy)
Hungarian
1 entries- bürokrata noun (an official in a bureaucracy)
Icelandic
1 entries- kerfiskarl noun (an official in a bureaucracy)
Indonesian
1 entries- birokrat noun (an official in a bureaucracy)
Irish
1 entries- maorlathaí noun (an official in a bureaucracy)
Italian
1 entries- burocrate noun (an official in a bureaucracy)
Japanese
1 entries- 官僚 noun (an official in a bureaucracy)
Kazakh
2 entries- бюрократ noun (an official in a bureaucracy)
- шенеуніксымақ noun (an official in a bureaucracy)
Korean
1 entries- 관료 noun (an official in a bureaucracy)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- бюрократ noun (an official in a bureaucracy)
Latvian
1 entries- birokrāts noun (an official in a bureaucracy)
Lithuanian
1 entries- biurokratas noun (an official in a bureaucracy)
Macedonian
2 entries- бирокра́т noun (an official in a bureaucracy)
- чиновник noun (an official in a bureaucracy)
Malay
1 entries- birokrat noun (an official in a bureaucracy)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- byråkrat noun (an official in a bureaucracy)
Persian
1 entries- بوروکرات noun (an official in a bureaucracy)
Polish
1 entries- biurokrata noun (an official in a bureaucracy)
Portuguese
1 entries- burocrata noun (an official in a bureaucracy)
Romanian
2 entries- birocrat noun (an official in a bureaucracy)
- birocrată noun (an official in a bureaucracy)
Russian
1 entries- бюрокра́т noun (an official in a bureaucracy)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- biròkrat noun (an official in a bureaucracy)
- биро̀крат noun (an official in a bureaucracy)
Slovak
2 entries- byrokrat noun (an official in a bureaucracy)
- byrokratka noun (an official in a bureaucracy)
Slovene
1 entries- birokrat noun (an official in a bureaucracy)
Spanish
1 entries- burócrata noun (an official in a bureaucracy)
Swedish
1 entries- byråkrat noun (an official in a bureaucracy)
Tajik
1 entries- бюрократ noun (an official in a bureaucracy)
Turkish
1 entries- bürokrat noun (an official in a bureaucracy)
Turkmen
1 entries- býurokrat noun (an official in a bureaucracy)
Ukrainian
2 entries- бюрокра́т noun (an official in a bureaucracy)
- бюрокра́тка noun (an official in a bureaucracy)
Urdu
1 entries- ضابِطَہ پَرَسْت noun (an official in a bureaucracy)
Uyghur
1 entries- بيۇروكرات noun (an official in a bureaucracy)
Uzbek
1 entries- byurokrat noun (an official in a bureaucracy)
Vietnamese
1 entries- kẻ quan liêu noun (an official in a bureaucracy)
Yiddish
1 entries- ביוראָקראַט noun (an official in a bureaucracy)
Sample sentences
9 total sentences available.
Tom is a bureaucrat.
Source: tatoeba (2548123)
Each bureaucrat has their own idiosyncrasies as to what papers they will require from you. To be safe, bring all the papers you can, and then get the ones that you can't. Even then, you will be at their whim.
Source: tatoeba (5607322)
Tom isn't your typical bureaucrat.
Source: tatoeba (5729531)
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