an official working in an organization or a government department, especially one who follows the rules of the department too strictly官僚主义者；官僚- He was just another faceless bureaucrat.他无非是一个毫无个性的官僚。
- battles between political appointees and career bureaucrats政治任命人员与职业官僚之间的斗争
- We got caught up in the endless red tape of local bureaucrats.我们陷入了地方官员无休止的官僚作风。
Topics Politicsc2Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- faceless
- corrupt
- unelected
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See full entry Word Originmid 19th cent.: from French bureaucrate, from bureaucratie, from bureau, originally ‘baize’ (used to cover writing desks), from Old French burel, probably from bure ‘dark brown’, based on Greek purros ‘red’.