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businesscrats

businesscrats is the plural of businesscrat.

Meaning of businesscrat

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

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

Questions about businesscrats

What is businesscrats the plural of?
Businesscrats is the plural of businesscrat.

Words near businesscrats in the dictionary

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

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