supercratn.
/ˈsuːpəkrat/, /ˈsjuːpəkrat/, U.S. /ˈsupərˌkræt/ Chiefly North American.
A powerful or high-ranking bureaucrat, spec. one appointed in the United States during the presidency of Richard Nixon (1969–74).The sense in quot. 1934 is not clear.In quot. 1971: (apparently) a hard-working bureaucrat.
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society > authority > office > holder of office > [noun] > bureaucrat or bureaucratist > powerful
supercrat1934
1934 Bluefield (W. Va.) Daily Tel. 3 Jan. 6/3 A commanding personality, he announces that he is from the Institute of Supermanity, England, is president of the Society of Social Supercrats.
1971 Jrnl. Black Stud. 2 101 Some bureaucrats become supercrats, working eighteen hours a day (not necessarily with overtime pay).
1972 Newsweek 11 Dec. 25 A slimmed-down, tidied-up..Nixon Inc. with..four or so White House-level supercrats.
1978 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 17 July 2/4 [The Ottawa] system has fewer than a dozen super-powerful bureaucrats who dominate the policy-making process. They are the supercrats, and Mr. Gotlieb is one of the more successful ones.
1992 Daily Mail 17 Aug. 3/4 What the supermarkets failed to do, the supercrats of Brussels are achieving with arrogant ease.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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