administrative official

Other forms: administrative officials

Definitions of administrative official

1. noun

   an official of a bureaucracy
   synonyms: bureaucrat

   types:

   bean counter

   an accountant or bureaucrat who is believed to place undue emphasis on the control of expenditures

   paper-pusher

   a clerk or bureaucrat who does paperwork

   procurator

   (ancient Rome) someone employed by the Roman Emperor to manage finance and taxes

   assessor, tax assessor

   an official who evaluates property for the purpose of taxing it

   collector of internal revenue, exciseman, internal revenue agent, tax collector, taxman

   someone who collects taxes for the government

   taxer

   a bureaucrat who levies taxes

   lister

   assessor who makes out the tax lists

   Pilate, Pontius Pilate

   the Roman procurator of Judea who ordered that Jesus be crucified (died in AD 36)

   type of:

   functionary, official

   a worker who holds or is invested with an office