Thesaurus:bureaucrat

Thesaurus

bureaucrat

English

Noun

Sense: an official who is part of a bureaucracy

Synonyms

• administrator
• bureaucrat
• clerk
• mandarin (UK & Commonwealth)
• paper-pusher (idiomatic, often derogatory)
• pen-pusher (idiomatic, often derogatory)
• pencil pusher (idiomatic, often derogatory)

Hypernyms

• official    [⇒ thesaurus]
• person    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hyponyms

• apparatchik
• appointee
• civil servant
• functionary
• jack guardant (archaic)
• jack-in-office
• minister
• public servant
• red-tapist (archaic)
• shiny bum (derogatory Australian, New Zealand)
• Sir Humphrey (UK)

Holonyms

• administration    [⇒ thesaurus]
• bumbledom
• bureaucracy
• civil service
• government    [⇒ thesaurus]
• mandarinate
• officialdom

Various

• dull functionary
• faceless bureaucrat

Further reading

• “694. director” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “bureaucrat” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.