Help you fill out the application for food stamps and other government programs, break down the discouraging bureaucratese.
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Bureaucratese
Synonyms for "bureaucratese" (5 found)
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Noun(1 words)
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Related words (2)
Noun(1 words)
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2 entrieshas context
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9 entriesTranslations
24 translations across 9 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- канцеларски стил noun (pejorative term for language typically used by bureaucrats)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 官腔 noun (pejorative term for language typically used by bureaucrats)
- 官話 /官话 noun (pejorative term for language typically used by bureaucrats)
Finnish
2 entries- (viranomaisten) kapulakieli noun (pejorative term for language typically used by bureaucrats)
- kapulakieli noun (pejorative term for language resembling that used by bureaucrats)
French
3 entries- baratin noun (pejorative term for language resembling that used by bureaucrats)
- charabia noun (pejorative term for language resembling that used by bureaucrats)
- langue de bois noun (pejorative term for language typically used by bureaucrats)
German
4 entries- Amtsdeutsch noun (pejorative term for language typically used by bureaucrats)
- Amtsdeutsch noun (pejorative term for language resembling that used by bureaucrats)
- Beamtendeutsch noun (pejorative term for language typically used by bureaucrats)
- Beamtendeutsch noun (pejorative term for language resembling that used by bureaucrats)
Italian
1 entries- burocratese noun (pejorative term for language typically used by bureaucrats)
Russian
1 entries- канцеляри́т noun (pejorative term for language typically used by bureaucrats)
Swedish
1 entries- kanslisvenska noun (pejorative term for language typically used by bureaucrats)
Ukrainian
2 entries- канцеля́рська мо́ва noun (pejorative term for language typically used by bureaucrats)
- канцеля́рська мо́ва noun (pejorative term for language resembling that used by bureaucrats)
Sample sentences
2 total sentences available.
The company president's annual statement was complete bureaucratese: it was utterly content-free.
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