A government official or administrator who works within a large organization and follows strict rules and procedures.
From French 'bureaucrate,' combining 'bureau' (office or desk, from Italian 'burello') and the suffix '-crat' (from Greek 'kratos' meaning rule).
The word 'bureaucrat' is actually pretty new—it was invented in France around 1765 as a criticism of government workers, but now it's used globally to describe the estimated 300+ million government employees worldwide!
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