bureaucratese
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of bureaucratese
Example Sentences
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It doesn't take a doctorate in bureaucratese to interpret this.
From Salon • Apr. 15, 2025
That’s bureaucratese for “we don’t feel too strongly about this.”
From Washington Post • Apr. 19, 2022
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
It is not written in bureaucratese, but it is not far from it either.
From New York Times • Apr. 20, 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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