burocrat

Noun

bureaucrat (plural bureaucrats)

1. An official who is part of a bureaucracy.
   • Coristine, who had signed onto the telemeeting using a non-government email address, gave the bureaucrats swift marching orders, telling them he needed access to the federal department’s contract and payment systems before reportedly making them justify their jobs at the $1 billion-budget...2025 February 7, Josie Ensor, “Meet Elon Musk’s ‘baby-faced assassins’ leading Doge takeover”, in The Times, archived from the original on 27 Jan 2026
2. (wiki jargon) A user on a wiki with the right to change users' access levels.
   • One of three major processes is generally used: a bureaucrat review, a broader community review, or an approvals group review. As only local bureaucrats or Wikimedia stewards can grant the bot flag necessary to operate an authorized bot, the simplest method is to appeal directly to these...2014, Pnina Fichman, Noriko Hara, editors, Global Wikipedia: International and Cross-Cultural Issues in Online Collaboration, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 18