overpaid bureaucrat, kept tight-lipped, dress down, sartorial , "salarymen"

Kashyap Patel, Main Author of Secret Memo, Is No Stranger to Quarrels By KATIE ROGERS and MATTHEW ROSENBERG Mr. Patel, a staff member on the House Intelligence Committee, was once berated by a judge for being a “bureaucrat” who “causes trouble.”

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TAIPEI — Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou made a surprise stopover in Mumbai on his way to Africa in what officials said was a sign of improving ties with India despite a lack of diplomatic recognition. Ma had kept tight-lipped about the two-hour ...


Investors dumped shares of Commerzbank on Monday, a day after the lender sealed an agreement to acquire Dresdner Bank from Allianz for 9.8 billion euros or $14.4 billion, on concern that it had overpaid.

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Retired bureaucrats hired as contract workers described as useless, overpaid

Retiring bureaucrats who slipped through amakudari loopholes and landed contract jobs at independent administrative organizations were often useless and clearly overpaid, according to staff members who worked with the former officials.(December 11) [more]

Japan bureaucrats dress down to save planet
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TOKYO — In their stuffy grey suits, starched collars and boring ties, Japan's famed "salarymen" could hardly be accused of being at the cutting edge of sartorial innovation. Now these warriors of the Japanese economy are being asked to ditch their ...

sartorial(sär-tôr'ē-əl, -tōr'-) 
adj.
Of or relating to a tailor, tailoring, or tailored clothing: sartorial elegance.

[From Late Latin sartor, tailor. See sartorius.]

sartorially sar·to'ri·al·ly adv.


bureaucrat
(byʊr'ə-krăt')
n.

1. An official of a bureaucracy.
2. An official who is rigidly devoted to the details of administrative procedure.

bureaucratic bu'reau·crat'ic adj.
bureaucratically bu'reau·crat'i·cal·ly adv.

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overpay Show phonetics
verb [T often passive] overpaid, overpaid
to pay someone too much:
I felt I should tell my boss she'd overpaid me by £50.
DISAPPROVING City lawyers are grossly overpaid for what they do.

overpaid Show phonetics
adjective
You can claim back the overpaid tax by filling in this form.
The bureaucrats, widely regarded as under-worked and overpaid, did not get much public sympathy for their pay claim.