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Definition of Bureaucracy

1. Noun. Nonelective government officials.

2. Noun. A government that is administered primarily by bureaus that are staffed with nonelective officials.

3. Noun. Any organization in which action is obstructed by insistence on unnecessary procedures and red tape.

Definition of Bureaucracy

1. n. A system of carrying on the business of government by means of departments or bureaus, each under the control of a chief, in contradiction to a system in which the officers of government have an associated authority and responsibility; also, government conducted on this system.

Definition of Bureaucracy

1. Noun. Structure and regulations in place to control activity. Usually in large organizations and government operations. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bureaucracy

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Bureaucracy

burdens of proof burdensome burdensomely burdensomeness burdie burdies burdock burdocks burds bure

bureau bureau-ocracy bureau de change bureau de changes bureaucracies bureaucracy (current term) bureaucrat bureaucratese bureaucrateses bureaucratic

bureaucratic procedure bureaucratical bureaucratically bureaucratie bureaucratisation bureaucratisations bureaucratise bureaucratised bureaucratises bureaucratising

Literary usage of Bureaucracy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy, and of the Political by John Joseph Lalor (1883)
"bureaucracy can reach complete power only when at the head of affairs there ... In like manner the rule of bureaucracy can only be broken when statesmen are ..."

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