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
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
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.