Word Meanings - BUREAUCRAT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An official of a bureau; esp. an official confirmed in a narrow and arbitrary routine. C. Kingsley.

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• NARROW
  A narrow passage; esp., a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water; -- usually in the plural; as, The Narrows of New York harbor. Near the island lay on one side the jaws of a dangerous narrow. Gladstone.
• BUREAUCRAT
  An official of a bureau; esp. an official confirmed in a narrow and arbitrary routine. C. Kingsley.
• OFFICIALISM
  The state of being official; a system of official government; also, adherence to office routine; red-tapism. Officialism may often drift into blunders. Smiles.
• BUREAUCRATIST
  An advocate for , or supporter of, bureaucracy.
• NARROW-MINDED
  Of narrow mental scope; illiberal; mean. -- Nar"row-mind`ed*ness, n.
• OFFICIALTY
  The charge, office, court, or jurisdiction of an official. Ayliffe.
• OFFICIAL
  Approved by authority; sanctioned by the pharmacopoeia; appointed to be used in medicine; as, an official drug or preparation. Cf. Officinal. 4. Discharging an office or function. The stomach and other parts official unto nutrition. Sir T. Browne.
• CONFIRMEDLY
  With confirmation.
• CONFIRMEE
  One to whom anuthing is confirmed.
• NARROWER
  One who, or that which, narrows or contracts. Hannah More.
• NARROWLY
  1. With little breadth; in a narrow manner. 2. Without much extent; contractedly. 3. With minute scrutiny; closely; as, to look or watch narrowly; to search narrowly. 4. With a little margin or space; by a small distance; hence, closely; hardly;
• BUREAUCRATIC; BUREAUCRATICAL
  Of, relating to, or resembling, a bureaucracy.
• BUREAU
  table, desk, office, OF., drugget, with which a writing table was often covered, equiv. to F. bure, and fr. OF. buire dark brown, the stuff being named from its color, fr. L. burrus red, fr. Gr. Fire, 1. Originally, a desk or writing table with
• OFFICIALLY
  By the proper officer; by virtue of the proper authority; in pursuance of the special powers vested in an officer or office; as, accounts or reports officially vertified or rendered; letters officially communicated; persons officially notified.
• BUREAUCRACY
  1. A system of carrying on the business of government by means of departments or bureaus, each under the control of a chief, in contradiction to a system in which the officers of government have an associated authority and responsibility; also,
• ROUTINE
  1. A round of business, amusement, or pleasure, daily or frequently pursued; especially, a course of business or offical duties regularly or frequently returning. 2. Any regular course of action or procedure rigidly adhered to by the mere force
• CONFIRMEDNESS
  A fixed state.
• NARROWNESS
  The condition or quality of being narrow.
• CONFIRMER
  One who, or that which, confirms, establishes, or ratifies; one who corroborates. Shak.
• CONFIRM
  To administer the rite of confirmation to. See Confirmation, 3. Those which are thus confirmed are thereby supposed to be fit for admission to the sacrament. Hammond. Syn. -- To strengthen; corroborate; substantiate; establish; fix; ratify; settle;
• INOFFICIALLY
  Without the usual forms, or not in the official character.
• EXTRA-OFFICIAL
  Not prescribed by official duty.
• INOFFICIAL
  Not official; not having official sanction or authoriy; not according to the forms or ceremony of official business; as, inofficial intelligence. Pinckney and Marshall would not make inofficial visits to discuss official business. Pickering. Syn.
• RECONFIRM
  To confirm anew. Clarendon.
• EX-OFFICIAL
  Proceeding from office or authority.