burocrat
English
Pronunciation
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Noun
burocrat (plural burocrats)
- Rare spelling of bureaucrat.
- 1926, HW Fowler, A Dictionary of Modern English Usage:The Classic First Edition, Reprint edition, Oxford University Press, published 2009, →ISBN:
- The formation is so barbarous that all attempt at self-repect in pronunciation may perhaps as well be abandoned. … it is only to be desired that the spelling could also be changed to burocrat …
- 2011, Décio Krause, Antonio Videira, Brazilian Studies in Philosophy and History of Science: An account of recent works Volume 290 of Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science[3], Springer, →ISBN, page 240:
- Latour supports the works done by scientists, politicians, economists, burocrats, and moralists.