[a. F. bureaucrate, f. as prec.: cf. aristocrat.] An official who endeavors to concentrate administrative power in his bureau; a member of a bureaucracy; sometimes = bureaucratist.
1850. Kingsley, Alton Locke, I. xx. 283 (D.). He had in old times done dirty work for Dublin Castle bureaucrats. Ibid., II. xx. 295 (D.). The tyrants of the earth … the plutocrats and bureaucrats.
1870. Daily News, 3 Nov., 6/6. Many I fear are starving owing to that bureaucrat love of classification which is the curse of France.
1883. H. Sutherland Edwards, in Harper’s Mag., June, 107/1. He was a great centralizer and bureaucrat.
