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bu•reau•crat•ese



Pronunciation: (byoor"u-kra-tēz', -tēs', byoo-rok"ru-), [key]
n.
a style of language, used esp. by bureaucrats, that is full of circumlocutions, euphemisms, buzzwords, abstractions, etc.

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