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[Noun] | "bu*reau*crat*ese" | \ ˌbyu̇r-ə-(ˌ)kra-ˈtēz \
1: a style of language held to be characteristic of bureaucrats and marked by abstractions, jargon, euphemisms, and circumlocutions
Origin: 1942 ;
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[ "Bureaucratese" ]
1: Euphemistic language often employed to whitewash corruption, cronyism, war, or genocide, used by nerds who were too bad at science or math so went on to become a public "servant" or bureaucrat.
* e.g., ... "Israel has a right to defend itself" is a common phrase in American Bureaucratese. It means Israel gets to bomb hospitals and shoot kids.
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