Meaning of businesscrat | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A corporate bureaucrat.
2. A person whose career includes acting both as a business executive and a government bureaucrat in the Democratic Party in the United States.
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Examples

“The ideal CIO must be both "a technocrat and a businesscrat at the same time," says Jerre Stead, chief executive officer at Square D Co., an electronics manufacturer in Palatine, Ill.”

“Citizens are just as frustrated by corporate bureaucrats — or "businesscrats" — in their daily dealings with banks, department stores, and credit card companies.”

“In the 1930s, the government and the private sector had switched stereotypical roles, with the entrepreneurial impulse coming from the executive branch and resistance to change coming from Main Street “businesscrats.””

“James Scrimgeour, whose family firm resigned in protest as brokers to MEPC, warned in a letter to The Times that the City's separate and individual activities would be submerged in vast corporations generally controlled at the top by a diminishing number of "businesscrats".”

“"Businesscrats" had staffed the war agencies and they returned to private life at the end of the conflict.”

“Existing federal bureaucracies were not prepared to mobilize human resources and coordinate the industrial economy for war, so emergency agencies were thrown together for the occasion, mostly staffed by professional experts and "businesscrats" temporarily recruited from the corporate capitalist sector.”

“Put a business executive up for senator as a Democrat, and you've got a Businesscrat. Maybe also an endangered species.”

“Second, multiple variants of a “businesscrat” — “a twentieth- century breed of businessman who spends a significant part of his life working as a government bureaucrat (Galambos, 1966, 205, fn 3)””

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