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Bureaucracy

nounverified·updated May 18, 2026

any organization in which action is obstructed by insistence on unnecessary procedures and red tape

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Senses

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a government that is administered primarily by bureaus that are staffed with nonelective officials

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nonelective government officials

Classifications

Entity Type

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

synonym
bureaucratism
plural
Bureaucracies
possessive
Bureaucracy's
pluralpossessive
Bureaucracies'