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Bureaucracy

see synonyms of bureaucracy

Noun

1. bureaucracy, bureaucratism

nonelective government officials

2. bureaucracy

a government that is administered primarily by bureaus that are staffed with nonelective officials

3. bureaucracy

any organization in which action is obstructed by insistence on unnecessary procedures and red tape

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Bureaucracy

see synonyms of bureaucracy
noun plural -cies
1. 
a system of administration based upon organization into bureaus, division of labour, a hierarchy of authority, etc: designed to dispose of a large body of work in a routine manner
2. 
government by such a system
3. 
government or other officials collectively
4. 
any administration in which action is impeded by unnecessary official procedures and red tape

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Bureaucracy

see synonyms of bureaucracy
nounWord forms: plural buˈreaucracies
1. 
the administration of government through departments and subdivisions managed by sets of appointed officials following an inflexible routine
2. 
the officials collectively
3. 
governmental officialism or inflexible routine
see also red tape
4. 
the concentration of authority in a complex structure of administrative bureaus

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Bureaucracy

see synonyms of bureaucracy
n. pl. bu·reauc·ra·cies
1.
a. Administration of a government chiefly through bureaus or departments staffed with nonelected officials.
b. The departments and their officials as a group: promised to reorganize the federal bureaucracy.
2.
a. Management or administration marked by hierarchical authority among numerous offices and by fixed procedures: The new department head did not know much about bureaucracy.
b. The administrative structure of a large or complex organization: a midlevel manager in a corporate bureaucracy.
3. An administrative system in which the need or inclination to follow rigid or complex procedures impedes effective action: innovative ideas that get bogged down in red tape and bureaucracy.

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