˜yÐÄvlog

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bureaucratese

[ byoor-uh-kra-teez, -tees, byoo-rok-ruh- ]

noun

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


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Yes, that loophole is easy to miss, given the bureaucratese used to explain it, but its potential impact on soaring military budgets couldn't be clearer.

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In translation, that's bureaucratese for widespread trauma to come.

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When Professor Kahn left Ithaca for government posts, he became renowned for those precepts, attacking “the artificial and hyper-legal language that is sometimes known as bureaucratese or gobbledygook.â€

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That’s bureaucratese for “we don’t feel too strongly about this.â€

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His hollow apologies and empty promises to improve processes were the worst kind of mealy-mouthed bureaucratese.

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