bureaucracy
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
bureaucracy
- Government by bureaus or their administrators or officers.
- (business, organizational theory) A system of administration based upon organisation into bureaus, division of labour, a hierarchy of authority, etc., designed to dispose of a large body of work in a routine manner.
- At that time the administration replaced the system of patronage in the civil service with a bureaucracy.
- The body of officers and administrators, especially of a government.
- The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy. (apocryphal quip)
- Any administration, body, or behaviour characterised by excessive red tape and routine.
- The head of the civil service promised to clamp down on bureaucracy.
- French: bureaucratie
- Russian: бюрокра́тия
- French: bureaucratie
- German: Bürokratie
- Italian: burocrazia
- Portuguese: burocracia
- Russian: бюрокра́тия
- Spanish: burocracia
- Spanish: burocracia
- Spanish: burocracia
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