Thesaurus:bureaucrat

Thesaurus:bureaucrat

THESAURUS

bureaucrat

English

Synonyms

• administrator

• bureaucrat

• clerk

• mandarin (UK & Commonwealth)

• paper-pusher (idiomatic, often derogatory)

• pen-pusher (idiomatic, often derogatory)

• pencil pusher (idiomatic, often derogatory)

Hypernyms

• official    [WS]

• person    [WS]

Hyponyms

• apparatchik

• appointee

• civil servant

• functionary

• jack guardant (archaic)

• jack-in-office

• minister

• public servant

• red-tapist (archaic)

• Sir Humphrey (UK)

Holonyms

• administration    [WS]

• bureaucracy

• civil service

• government    [WS]

• mandarinate

• officialdom

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.