businesscrat noun2 •A corporate bureaucrat.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. — 1991 •(US) A person whose career includes acting both as a business executive and a government bureaucrat in the Democratic Party in the United States."Businesscrats" had staffed the war agencies and they returned to private life at the end of the conflict. — 1986 formsbusinesscrats