bureaucracy
government by bureaus or their administrators or officers.
Other meanings
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.
Related words
- antibureaucracy
- bureaucrap
- bureaucrat
- bureaucratese
- bureaucratic
- bureaucratically
- bureaucratize
- bureaucrazy
- bureaupathology
- Eurocracy
- technobureaucracy
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