bureaucratese

American  

[byoor-uh-kra-teez, -tees, byoo-rok-ruh-] / ˌbyʊər ə kræˈtiz, -ˈtis, byʊˌrɒk rə- /

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of bureaucratese

bureaucrat + -ese

Example Sentences

Brooks has an anthropologist’s ear for the language of policing, jumping from the reports full of passive-voice bureaucratese to the darkly humorous, profanity-laden shoptalk.

From New York Times

The offices wrote back in their usual dry bureaucratese, vowing to "prevent such data from leaking out on the internet and causing a serious adverse impact to society."

From Salon

The offices wrote back in their usual dry bureaucratese, vowing to “prevent such data from leaking out on the internet and causing a serious adverse impact to society.”

From New York Times

Later, upon being denied asylum, her frustration is met with bureaucratese.

From The Guardian

The papers “are written in bureaucratese,” and the announced results are hard to decipher, says Dan Graur, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Houston and a well-known critic of big science.

From Science Magazine