bureaucratese
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of bureaucratese
Example Sentences
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In translation, that's bureaucratese for widespread trauma to come.
From Salon • Jun. 6, 2023
She walks out some hours later with a traumatized expression on her face, after flailing in a sea of incomprehensible bureaucratese, unable to extract a single coherent thought from her notes.
From New York Times • Feb. 28, 2020
Viewers in the late Soviet era had become accustomed to a heavy lexicon of bureaucratese and boosterism that verged on the absurd.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 9, 2019
Under the law, the State Department must make sure that foreign military units don’t commit “gross violations of human rights,” or GVHRs in bureaucratese, before they receive aid.
From Washington Post • Mar. 29, 2019
The bland bureaucratese of an April 2004 report by the General Accounting Office did not hide harsh conclusions: Overseas missions were draining the guard of its troops, particularly in expert specialties.
From Slate • Sep. 7, 2016
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