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businesscrat

businesscrat noun: a corporate bureaucrat.

Noun (1)

businesscrat (plural businesscrats)

  1. A corporate bureaucrat.
    • The ideal CIO must be both "a technocrat and a businesscrat at the same time," says Jerre Stead, chief executive officer at Square D Co., an electronics manufacturer in Palatine, Ill.1991 April 29, Joseph Maglitta, “How can you make your boss happy?”, in Computerworld
    • Citizens are just as frustrated by corporate bureaucrats — or "businesscrats" — in their daily dealings with banks, department stores, and credit card companies.1997, James Garnett, Handbook of Administrative Communication, →ISBN, page 208

Noun (2)

businesscrat (plural businesscrats)

  1. (US) A person whose career includes acting both as a business executive and a government bureaucrat in the Democratic Party in the United States.
    • "Businesscrats" had staffed the war agencies and they returned to private life at the end of the conflict.1986, Frank Dobbin, The institutionalization of the state
    • Existing federal bureaucracies were not prepared to mobilize human resources and coordinate the industrial economy for war, so emergency agencies were thrown together for the occasion, mostly staffed by professional experts and "businesscrats" temporarily recruited from the corporate capitalist...1995, Kenneth Finegold, Theda Skocpol, State and Party in America's New Deal, →ISBN, page 55

Examples of businesscrat in a sentence

  • Put a business executive up for senator as a Democrat, and you've got a Businesscrat.1996, Lee Walczak, Gail DeGeorge, “PRATFALLS DREAM CANDIDATES' RUDE AWAKENING”, in Business Week:
  • Second, multiple variants of a “businesscrat” — “a twentieth- century breed of businessman who spends a significant part of his life working as a government bureaucrat (Galambos, 1966, 205, fn 3)”2013 July, Maria N Ivanova, “The Great Recession and the state of American Capitalism”, in Science & Society, volume 77, number 3:

Forms of businesscrat

pluralbusinesscrats

Origin of businesscrat

Blend of business + bureaucrat.

Blend of business + Democrat coined by Gerald D. Nash and popularized by Louis Galambos in Competition and Cooperation: The Emergence of a National Trade Association (1966).

Questions about businesscrat

What does businesscrat mean?
Businesscrat means a corporate bureaucrat.
How do you use businesscrat in a sentence?
Put a business executive up for senator as a Democrat, and you've got a Businesscrat.
What part of speech is businesscrat?
Businesscrat is a noun.
What is the plural of businesscrat?
The plural of businesscrat is businesscrats.

Words near businesscrat in the dictionary

  1. business-to-business
  2. business-to-business-to-consumer
  3. business-to-consumer
  4. business-to-employee
  5. business-to-institutions
  6. businesscrat
  7. businesscrats
  8. businesse
  9. businesses
  10. businessese
  11. businessfolk

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