Meanings
nounsuperbureaucrat (plural superbureaucrats)
plural superbureaucrats
- A very powerful bureaucrat
Some warn of creating a clubby group of superbureaucrats.
2009 January 7, Jason Deparle, “A Plan to Turn the Lowly Bureaucrat Into a Cherished Public Servant”, in New York Times
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*úp
- Proto-Indo-European*upér
- Proto-Italic*super
- Latinsuper
- Latinsuper-
- Englishsuper-
- Proto-Indo-European*péh₂wr̥
- Proto-Hellenic*pāwər
- Ancient Greekπῦρ (pûr)
- Ancient Greekπῠρρός (pŭrrhós)
- Latinburrus
- Latinburra
- Old French*bure
- Old Frenchburel
- Frenchbureau
- Proto-Indo-European*kret-
- Ancient Greekκρᾰ́τος (krắtos)
- Frenchbureaucratie
- Frenchbureaucrate
- Englishbureaucrat
- Englishsuperbureaucrat
From super- + bureaucrat.
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