Question

bureaucrat To settle his insurance claim he had to make his way through four or five bureaucrats, every one of them with a new form to fill out. ˈbjʊrəˌkræt

Accepted Answer

(1) An appointed government official. (2) An official of a government or system that is marked by fixed and complex rules that often result in long delays. In French, a bureau is a desk, so bureaucracy means basically “government by people at desks.” Despite the bad-mouthing they often get, partly because they usually have to stick so close to the rules, bureaucrats do almost all the day-to-day work that keeps a government running. The idea of a bureaucracy is to split up the complicated task of governing a large country into smaller jobs that can be handled by specialists. Bureaucratic government is nothing new; the Roman empire had an enormous and complex bureaucracy, with the bureaucrats at lower levels reporting to bureaucrats above them, and so on up to the emperor himself.

word	bureaucrat
definition	(1) An appointed government official. (2) An official of a government or system that is marked by fixed and complex rules that often result in long delays.
eg_sentence	To settle his insurance claim he had to make his way through four or five bureaucrats, every one of them with a new form to fill out.
explanation	In French, a bureau is a desk, so bureaucracy means basically “government by people at desks.” Despite the bad-mouthing they often get, partly because they usually have to stick so close to the rules, bureaucrats do almost all the day-to-day work that keeps a government running. The idea of a bureaucracy is to split up the complicated task of governing a large country into smaller jobs that can be handled by specialists. Bureaucratic government is nothing new; the Roman empire had an enormous and complex bureaucracy, with the bureaucrats at lower levels reporting to bureaucrats above them, and so on up to the emperor himself.
IPA	ˈbjʊrəˌkræt

Government Bureaucrats Complex Bureaucracy Appointed Official System Marked