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
Wordset Dictionary
a government that is administered primarily by bureaus that are staffed with nonelective officials
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nonelective government officials
Classifications
Entity Type
Unknown—glossary_import_default_pending_classifier
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Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- synonym
- bureaucratism
- plural
- Bureaucracies
- possessive
- Bureaucracy's
- pluralpossessive
- Bureaucracies'