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crat

crat is the clipping of bureaucrat.

crat is the clipping of Democrat.

Meaning of bureaucrat

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

Meaning of Democrat

Noun

Democrat (plural Democrats)

  1. A member or supporter of a democratic party.
  2. (US) A member or supporter of the Democratic Party in the United States.
    • At one point in the debate, the moderator asked a tough question that had the candidates stumped.
      Moderator: "This question is for both of the candidates. Those ever-important independent voters who haven’t decided who to vote for would like to know what the real differences between you two...2000 October 3, Tim Paluch, “Gore vs. Bush: That's Debatable”, in Iowa State Daily, archived from the original on 17 Apr 2024

See all 6 meanings of democrat

Forms of crat

pluralcrats
alternative form'crat

Questions about crat

What is crat the clipping of?
Crat is the clipping of bureaucrat.

Words near crat in the dictionary

  1. crastin
  2. crastinal
  3. crastination
  4. crastinations
  5. crastins
  6. crat
  7. crataegus
  8. crataeguses
  9. Crataeis
  10. cratch
  11. cratched

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Adapted from Wiktionary: crat (page history and authors); bureaucrat (page history and authors); Democrat (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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