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US
/bjʊˈɹɑkɹəsi/
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[ UK /bjɔːɹˈɒkɹəsˌi/ ]
[ UK /bjɔːɹˈɒkɹəsˌi/ ]
NOUN
- any organization in which action is obstructed by insistence on unnecessary procedures and red tape
- a government that is administered primarily by bureaus that are staffed with nonelective officials
- nonelective government officials
How To Use bureaucracy In A Sentence
- Perhaps they will dub it the age of unreason, petty bureaucracy and utter silliness. Times, Sunday Times
- When Yahoo bureaucracy rules, people die in the health services and the aged in nursing homes are victimised while benchmark payments are pocketed.
- In heaven the seraphim criticize the cherubim, who look down on the thrones: the original bureaucracy. YESTERDAY'S SHADOW
- It is sad that there are ineffective ministers and somnolent bureaucracy giving the people a raw deal.
- I had to deal with the university's bureaucracy before I could change from one course to another.
- This despite being part of a school system which demonstrably does not waste much of its money on bureaucracy and aggrandizement of its own honchos; the system has no trouble educating half of its students.
- Unfortunately, there is a mentality in the federal bureaucracy that defies change and rejects innovation.
- Financial services in Bulgaria are still branded by formalism, bureaucracy and lack of interest, analysts said.
- Our cowardly lion of a bureaucracy throws issue after issue into the long grass when confronted by the mice that roar. Times, Sunday Times
- Some of the premiers had earlier expressed skepticism about creating another level of bureaucracy. Globe and Mail
