Bureaucrat vs Bureaucratese - What's the difference?
bureaucrat | bureaucratese |
A style of language, typically used by bureaucrats, that uses jargon or euphemism to the detriment of broader understanding.
Any language containing many non-essential words intended to imply more importance or intelligence than is actually present.
As nouns the difference between bureaucrat and bureaucratese
is that bureaucrat is an official who is part of a bureaucracy while bureaucratese is a style of language, typically used by bureaucrats, that uses jargon or euphemism to the detriment of broader understanding.bureaucrat
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Usage notes
* (an official) The term (term), while often used in a professional and respectful manner, is oftentimes disdained by those who work in organizations, especially governmental organizations. This is due to connotations of rigidity, indifference, and especially laziness that the term can sometimes connote (the latter especially reflected in the oft-repeated derisive term (term)). As a result, many workers in organizations, especially governmental ones, prefer terms such as (manager), (public manager), (civil servant), (public servant), (public official), etc.bureaucratese
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Noun
(-)- The company president's annual statement was complete bureaucratese : it was completely content-free.