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Minister vs Bureaucrat - What's the difference?

minister | bureaucrat |

As nouns the difference between minister and bureaucrat

is that minister is minister (a person who is commissioned by the government for public service) while bureaucrat is an official who is part of a bureaucracy.

minister

English

Noun

(en noun) (minister)
  • A person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church.
  • A politician who heads a ministry (national or regional government department for public service).
  • * (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
    • Ministers to kings, whose eyes, ears, and hands they are, must be answerable to God and man.
  • At a diplomacy, the rank of diplomat directly below ambassador.
  • A servant; a subordinate; an officer or assistant of inferior rank; hence, an agent, an instrument.
  • * Bible, (w) xxiv. 13
    • Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
    • I chose / Camillo for the minister , to poison / My friend Polixenes.

    Related terms

    * ministerial * ministry * ministerium

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To attend to (the needs of); to tend; to take care (of); to give aid; to give service.
    • A newspaper headline: Couple leaves business world to minister to inner-city children
  • to function as a clergyman or as the officiant in church worship
  • (archaic) To afford, to give, to supply.
  • * Bible, 2 Corinthians ix. 10
    • He that ministereth seed to the sower.
  • * Jeremy Taylor
    • We minister to God reason to suspect us.
  • * 1610 , , act 2 scene 1
    • I do well believe your highness; and did it to / minister occasion to these gentlemen [...] (to give opportunity to these gentlemen)

    See also

    * cleric * father * parson * pastor * priest * vicar

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    bureaucrat

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An official who is part of a bureaucracy

    • 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.

    Related terms

    * bureaucracy * bureaucratic * bureaucratese