bureaucratess

English

Etymology

From bureaucrat +‎ -ess.

Noun

bureaucratess (plural bureaucratesses)

1. (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.