bureaucratese

[ byoor-uh-kra-teez, -tees, byoo-rok-ruh- ]

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noun

a style of language, used especially by bureaucrats, that is full of circumlocutions, euphemisms, buzzwords, abstractions, etc.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of bureaucratese¹

bureaucrat + -ese

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Example Sentences

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It doesn't take a doctorate in bureaucratese to interpret this.

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Yes, that loophole is easy to miss, given the bureaucratese used to explain it, but its potential impact on soaring military budgets couldn't be clearer.

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In translation, that's bureaucratese for widespread trauma to come.

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When Professor Kahn left Ithaca for government posts, he became renowned for those precepts, attacking “the artificial and hyper-legal language that is sometimes known as bureaucratese or gobbledygook.”

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That’s bureaucratese for “we don’t feel too strongly about this.”

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bureaucrat bureaucratic

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