lanyardism
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The philosophy or sphere of civil servants, viewed as excessively liberal and officious.
British usage; Derogatory; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "This, named for the ubiquitous uniform of its proponents, is lanyardism."
- "Layers and layers of governance and control and inefficiency and joyless lanyardism wasting time and money, commissioning reports, milking the taxpayer and the energetic dry, sitting on and squashing our still lingering culture of association and unofficial voluntarism, of clubs and committees, of swaps and schemes."
- "nearly all 'clean energy' jobs are regulatory. The only expansion is in bureaucratic lanyardism"
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Usage
- British usage
- Derogatory
- Uncountable