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lanyardism en · NOUN

Etymology

From lanyard + -ism.

Meanings

  1. (UK, derogatory, uncountable) The philosophy or sphere of civil servants, viewed as excessively liberal and officious.
    • 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. 2025 June 5, Nicholas Boys Smith, “Oval's books go up in bureaucracy”, in The Critic:
    • nearly all 'clean energy' jobs are regulatory. The only expansion is in bureaucratic lanyardism 2026 August 5, Griff (@Gav_Griffiths), Twitter:
    • This, named for the ubiquitous uniform of its proponents, is lanyardism. 2025 May 27, Madeline Grant, “The Foreign Office is now a national embarrassment”, in The Telegraph: