noun🔗ShareGovernment by bureaus or their administrators or officers."The school's bureaucracy required multiple forms and signatures for the permission slip. "politicsgovernmentorganizationChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗Share(organizational theory) 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."governmentpoliticsorganizationsystembusinessChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareThe body of officers and administrators, especially of a government."The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy. (apocryphal quip)"governmentpoliticsorganizationstatesystemChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareExcessive red tape and routine in any administration, body or behaviour."The head of the civil service promised to clamp down on bureaucracy."governmentpoliticsorganizationsystembusinessChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading