Bureaucracy - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
- a government that is administered primarily by bureaus that are staffed with nonelective officials
- any organization in which action is obstructed by insistence on unnecessary procedures and red tape
Extra examples
She was fed up with all the red tape and bureaucracy.
Both candidates pledge to simplify the state's bloated bureaucracy.
The new president found it difficult to change the way the bureaucracy worked.
I'm fed up with all this bureaucracy, just to get an export licence!
...claims that the problem will never be solved within the existing cadre of the state bureaucracy...
...a routine request that got hung up in the meshes of the state bureaucracy...
The government has been stultified by bureaucracy.
The whole process was encumbered with bureaucracy.
The company was burdened by a top-heavy bureaucracy.
This is an example of bureaucracy writ large.
Citizens, empowered with factual knowledge, would gain purchase over bureaucracy.
The bureaucracy paralyzes the entire operation
Word forms
singular: bureaucracy
plural: bureaucracies
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