The bureaucratese is a bit more poignant than it might at first seem. 910 means the house was searched on 9/10. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Faith Can Heal A Heart That’s Been Betrayed | ATTACKERMAN] Reference
Codel is bureaucratese for Congressional DELegation. From Wordnik.com. [Rogue Warrior]
He eyes me coldly as I slip into unfeeling bureaucratese. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
And the prose, while often lively, lapses into bureaucratese. From Wordnik.com. [Border War] Reference
DOBBS: Working closely, that's nice bureaucratese, if you will. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 30, 2007] Reference
The I.G. did make three recommendations, sort of bureaucratese. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 31, 2007] Reference
"Surplus property disposal program," man, that's gooooood bureaucratese. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: March 9, 2003 - March 15, 2003 Archives] Reference
As for the niggling regulations and CYA bureaucratese, curb your ACLU, sir. From Wordnik.com. [Says it all « BuzzMachine] Reference
You'll find the title in its original bureaucratese here, and its author here. From Wordnik.com. [BatesLine: April 2005 Archives] Reference
Pakistan has successfully mired India's demands to deal with terrorism in bureaucratese. From Wordnik.com. [India News Digest: Interim Budget likely to offer tax breaks] Reference
Translated from bureaucratese, this means performance of political and representative functions. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-07-01] Reference
I have to read through the SOW RPP on the Treasury Board, and the bureaucratese just gets to me. From Wordnik.com. [Liberal Party: wrong on SOW cuts] Reference
I've extracted from the bureaucratese the sections of most interest to those with dairy concerns. From Wordnik.com. [A naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding. [contains dairy]] Reference
Glaze my eyes over with endless bureaucratese, without giving me any solid information to chew on. From Wordnik.com. [One thing the SWC has done for me] Reference
William Safire used it in 1983, in fact, saying it was "bureaucratese for an office without work to do.". From Wordnik.com. [Justin Snider: Rubber Rooms: Gone From New York City, But Alive Elsewhere?] Reference
The bureaucratese was changed to something the customer could easily understand, and the results followed. From Wordnik.com. [From The USPS, Without Love] Reference
I think we grown-ups know how to interpret bureaucratese when we see it no matter where we may be in the world. From Wordnik.com. [Immigration Lakeside Visits] Reference
Germany being Germany, there may be some top-down mandate over government documents and other bureaucratese as well. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: GERMAN SPELLING REFORM.] Reference
More later – we had a school board meeting, and oy, the muddle-headed leaden-prose bureaucratese was enough to choke a goat. From Wordnik.com. [Friday, April 24 – The Bleat.] Reference
It sounds like bureaucratese, from someone who has learned on the job to do the opposite of anything E.B. White or Orwell said. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: SOME OF WHOM HAVING.] Reference
He bluepenciled my memos and reports, making me rewrite them again and again until they read like English instead of bureaucratese. From Wordnik.com. [Rogue Warrior]
That's bureaucratese for "Yucca Mountain is dead.". From Wordnik.com. [Slate Magazine] Reference
That's bureaucratese for "the records don't exist.". From Wordnik.com. [Liblogs.ca latest blog entries] Reference
We hope that isn't bureaucratese for file and forget. From Wordnik.com. [The Altoona Mirror] Reference
(A sweeter piece of bureaucratese has rarely been committed to paper.). From Wordnik.com. [BrothersJudd Blog] Reference
At the heart of every user of bureaucratese lies a deep fear of acting. From Wordnik.com. [Arizona Daily Wildcat] Reference
The report, crammed with acronyms and bureaucratese, is not light reading. From Wordnik.com. [David Horowitz Freedom Center] Reference
But it doesn't make reading it in self-righteous bureaucratese any easier. From Wordnik.com. [Alterdestiny] Reference
"(The agency) uses a lot of bureaucratese-speak like SEZ and TMDL," she said. From Wordnik.com. [Sierra Sun - Top Stories] Reference
Well, lenders were no longer originating -- in bureaucratese - "goal-rich loans.". From Wordnik.com. [Financial Sense Newshour] Reference
Their language is the precise bureaucratese favored by dungeon masters throughout history. From Wordnik.com. [Propeller Most Popular Stories] Reference
It would not just be wordplay or bureaucratese, if we call teachers "learning specialists.". From Wordnik.com. [ArtsJournal: Daily Arts News] Reference
One odd thing about bureaucratese is that those who indulge in it frequently go to the other extreme. From Wordnik.com. [Arizona Daily Wildcat] Reference
Translated from the bureaucratese, that means looking for other opportunities to raise people's values. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The administration initially banned the use of the term "War on Terror," preferring the ridiculous bureaucratese. From Wordnik.com. [National Review Online] Reference
The 97-page QDR is written in bureaucratese, which makes it difficult for Congress and the public to understand. From Wordnik.com. [post-gazette.com - News] Reference
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