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English
Etymology
From bureaucrat + -ess.
Noun
bureaucratess (plural bureaucratesses)
- (rare) A female bureaucrat.
1943 October 16, Gee McGee, “Nobody’s Business”, in The Gaffney Ledger, Gaffney, S.C., page four, column 2:I took a strangle hold on my nervous system and walked into his office on invitation from the pretty little bureaucratess who met me at the door.
1965, Dust, page 13:Said a crying bureaucratess: "God was love."
1975 December 10, Bruce Odessey, “Santa Claus Meets Women’s Liberation”, in The Press, Atlantic City, N.J., page 2, column 3:The two young volunteers, with their costumes of short red suits with white trim and matching red leotards, are gone; the burning bureaucratesses of the last jolly season have been asked to pitch in but, Roberts said, “I don’t have any commitment from them.”
1980, Bric-a-brac, page 139:As junior bureaucrats and bureaucratesses in the game of U.S.G., the children delight in producing marvelously nebulous studies and reports, and carping at the official titles of university Deans.
2007, James T. Bennett, “Pulling Out Our Tongues: The Assault on Language”, in The Politics of American Feminism: Gender Conflict in Contemporary Society, University Press of America,® Inc., →ISBN, page 121:You see, a frowning bureaucratess from Cambridge, one Rebecca Bowtell, was along for the ride.