bureaucrate

French

Etymology

From bureaucratie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /by.ʁo.kʁat/

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• Rhymes: -at
• Homophone: bureaucrates

Noun

bureaucrate m (plural bureaucrates)

1. bureaucrat

Descendants

• → Crimean Tatar: bürokrat
• → Czech: byrokrat
• → Danish: bureaukrat
• → Dutch: bureaucraat
  • Afrikaans: burokraat
  • → Indonesian: birokrat
• → English: bureaucrat
• → German: Bürokrat
• → Italian: burocrate
• → Portuguese: burocrata
• → Turkish: bürokrat

Further reading

• “bureaucrate”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012