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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 ;

    [Noun]  | "bureaucratese" 


     [ "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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