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PRONUNCIATION OF BABUDOM

babudom  [ˈbɑːbuːdəm] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BABUDOM

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Babudom is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES BABUDOM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of babudom in the English dictionary

The definition of babudom in the dictionary is bureaucracy, the rule of babus.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BABUDOM


boredom
ˈbɔːdəm
czardom
ˈzɑːdəm
dirdum
ˈdɜːdəm
Edom
ˈiːdəm
freedom
ˈfriːdəm
gurudom
ˈɡʊruːdəm
ledum
ˈliːdəm
overfreedom
ˌəʊvəˈfriːdəm
sedum
ˈsiːdəm
shahdom
ˈʃɑːdəm
stardom
ˈstɑːdəm
superstardom
ˌsuːpəˈstɑːdəm
tsardom
ˈzɑːdəm
tzardom
ˈzɑːdəm
unfreedom
ʌnˈfriːdəm
whoredom
ˈhɔːdəm

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BABUDOM

babka
bablah
Babo´s law
babool
baboon
baboonery
baboonish
babouche
babu
babuism
babul
Babur
babushka
baby
baby bath
baby blues
baby bond
baby bonus
baby boom

WORDS THAT END LIKE BABUDOM

animal kingdom
at random
Christendom
condom
conventional wisdom
degree of freedom
dom
dukedom
fandom
kingdom
martyrdom
Old Kingdom
popedom
pseudorandom
Radom
random
seldom
Sodom
United Kingdom
wisdom

Synonyms and antonyms of babudom in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «babudom» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BABUDOM

Find out the translation of babudom to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of babudom from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «babudom» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

babudom
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

babudom
570 millions of speakers

English

babudom
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

babudom
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

babudom
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

babudom
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

babudom
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

babudom
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

babudom
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Babudom
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

babudom
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

babudom
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

babudom
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Babudom
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

babudom
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

babudom
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बॅबूम
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

babudom
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

babudom
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

babudom
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

babudom
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

babudom
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

babudom
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

babudom
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

babudom
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

babudom
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of babudom

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BABUDOM»

The term «babudom» is used very little and occupies the 166.208 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BABUDOM» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «babudom» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «babudom» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about babudom

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BABUDOM»

Discover the use of babudom in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to babudom and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Journeys through babudom and netaland: governance in India
India, Government, Politics, Babudom, Netaland.
T. S. R. Subramanian, 2004
2
Babudom : Catacombs Of India Bureaucracy
The outcome: a kleptocrat, not a bureaucrat; service to self, not to the nation and people - that is the leit motif. This is the story of the Indian klepto babu.
Sudhansu Mohanty, 2004
3
Babudom Bosh+: Squibs of Sweet and Sour Shots
Memoirs of a former statistician of Indian government; most previously published as articles.
Thomas Brezina, 1991
4
Dr.Manmohan Singh- A Decade of Decay:
When. will. we. get. freedom. from. babudom? The recent decision of the Karnataka government to ban iron ore exports once again points to the unholy nexus between the neta (leader), the lala (businessman) and the babu ( bureaucracy).
M.R.Venkatesh, 2013
5
Goverment In India
In a sense, the bookisa continuation of the author's earlier publication Journeys through Babudom and Netaland,which was well received.The styleandapproach in thispublication are quitedifferent, though governance is atheme common ...
T. S. R. Subramanian, 2012
6
Traveling India in the Age of Gandhi
A Babu was the quintessential Indian low-level clerk or official— at times obsequious, at others obstinate and deliberately disingenuous in manner and conduct. Some of the book's chapters are most revealing: "Babudom-The Western Veneer .
Jeffrey N. Dupée, 2008
7
Indian English Through Newspapers
(xiii) The Sunday Times ( 1 Nov. '98) titles "When will the computer conquer babudom?" The concept of 'babudom' is well known to the people here, the bureaucratic and clerical harassment, files being dumped in offices become the constant ...
Asima Ranjan Parhi, 2008
8
Amusing Anecdotes on Indian Red Tape
The babu who had prepared the report was perplexed and there was a commotion in the collectorate's babudom. Some babus met the Collector. They persuaded him to sign the report and send it to headquarters immediately. He was told that ...
Barun Kumar Sahu, 2002
9
Consumerism, Crime, and Corruption
Alam Srinivas, "Buccaneering in Babudom", The Times of India, August 18, 1992, p. 10. 4. Satya Dev, "What is Good Administration?" in R.D.Sharma, District Administration in India: Problems and Prospects (1991), p. 26. 5. Rajmohan Gandhi ...
M. G. Chitkara, 1998
10
Rudyard Kipling Collection
Watch him, all Babudom laid aside, smoking atnoon ona cot, while awoman withturquoisestudded headgear points southeasterly acrossthe bare grass. Litters, she says, do not travelas fast as single men,but his birds should now be in the ...
Rudyard Kipling, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BABUDOM»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term babudom is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Govt to raise transparency bar, accepts panel's suggestions
Babudom could soon get lessons on the virtues of transparency and open government. The Modi government has decided to accept five ... «Hindustan Times, Jul 15»
2
Vikram Johri: Cultural capital
But Delhi in the popular national imagination was still the city of babudom and influence where you could have the world's most expensive car ... «Business Standard, Jul 15»
3
Digital India: Ravi Shankar Prasad will have to tame babus as Modi …
This is how babudom moved in Gujarat. So the biggest impediment to Ravi Shankar Prasad's #DigitialIndia will be the same babus but at a ... «Firstpost, Jul 15»
4
Crime but no Punishment
Since it is so extremely self-serving for both law makers and 'babudom', there need not be any nail-biting suspense about the outcome. The law ... «Mid-Day, Jul 15»
5
The irresistible lure of 'babudom'
In India, civil servants are, most of the time, at the receiving end. Irrespective of their duties, they are lumped together, lampooned and derisively ... «The Asian Age, Jun 15»
6
Six Years And Not A Single Bullet-Proof Jacket?
The army, too, has its own babudom of sorts. They routinely change specifications or arrive at specifications that are impossible for any vendor ... «Swarajya, Jun 15»
7
Why Ranbir Kapoor was sitting at Juhu airport for hours?
But babudom being what it is, it transpired that the ad filmmakers had not managed to get the requisite permission from the local police station ... «Times of India, Jun 15»
8
Some are born to tweet delight
But babudom being what it is, it transpired that the ad filmmakers had not managed to get the requisite permission from the local police station ... «Mumbai Mirror, Jun 15»
9
Govt to spell out road map for phaseout of tax exemptions to …
See, how Swachh Bharat and Digital India merge, at taxpayers' expense, in babudom! A Mangalurian brand. At last, Mangalore Refinery and ... «Financial Express, Jun 15»
10
Fate accomplished
I returned to my state government and got immersed in babudom. We met off and on, whenever our paths crossed, particularly when he visited ... «domain-B, Jun 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Babudom [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/babudom>. Apr 2024 ».
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