Etymology

businesscrat

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Today it means: A corporate bureaucrat. Full definition →

English bureaucrat ← French bureaucrate ← Ancient Greek κρᾰ́τος (krắtos)
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businesscrat · noun1

  1. Proto-West Germanic*bisīg
  2. Old Englishbisiġ
  3. Old Englishbisiġnes
  4. Middle Englishbisynes
  5. Englishbusiness
  6. Proto-Indo-European*péh₂wr̥
  7. Proto-Hellenic*pāwər
  8. Ancient Greekπῦρ (pûr)
  9. Ancient Greekπῠρρός (pŭrrhós)
  10. Latinburrus
  11. Latinburra
  12. Old French*bure
  13. Old Frenchburel
  14. Frenchbureau
  15. Proto-Indo-European*kret-
  16. Ancient Greekκρᾰ́τος (krắtos)
  17. Frenchbureaucratie
  18. Frenchbureaucrate
  19. Englishbureaucrat
  20. English todaybusinesscrat

Blend of business + bureaucrat.

businesscrat · noun2

  1. Proto-West Germanic*bisīg
  2. Old Englishbisiġ
  3. Old Englishbisiġnes
  4. Middle Englishbisynes
  5. Englishbusiness
  6. EnglishDemocrat
  7. English todaybusinesscrat

Blend of business + Democrat coined by Gerald D. Nash and popularized by Louis Galambos in Competition and Cooperation: The Emergence of a National Trade Association (1966).

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