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means An official who runs an administrative system by its rules and procedures, especially one who follows them rigidly.

from From French 'bureaucratie,' itself built from 'bureau' (the desk, and by extension the office — originally the coarse brown cloth, 'bure,' that covered writing desks) plus the Greek-derived suffix '-cratie' (from 'kratos,' rule or power), the same ending found in 'democracy' and 'aristocracy.' So the word literally means 'rule by the desk' — government by the office rather than the person. 'Bureaucrat' followed in the 19th century as the human embodiment of that desk-rule, the person sitting behind it.