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bureaucratese

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

noun

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


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Example Sentences

The Task Force report is a blend of modern bureaucratese and the old Judeo-Christian tradition of the jeremiad.

They had him translate American bureaucratese into Cambodian.

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