Bureaucracy

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Administration of a government chiefly through bureaus or departments staffed with nonelected officials.
  • n. The departments and their officials as a group: promised to reorganize the federal bureaucracy.
  • n. Management or administration marked by hierarchical authority among numerous offices and by fixed procedures: The new department head did not know much about bureaucracy.
  • n. The administrative structure of a large or complex organization: a midlevel manager in a corporate bureaucracy.
  • n. An administrative system in which the need or inclination to follow rigid or complex procedures impedes effective action: innovative ideas that get bogged down in red tape and bureaucracy.
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  • n. Structure and regulations in place to control activity. Usually in large organizations and government operations.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A system of carrying on the business of government by means of departments or bureaus, each under the control of a chief, in contradiction to a system in which the officers of government have an associated authority and responsibility; also, government conducted on this system.
  • n. Government officials, collectively; -- used especially of nonelected government officials.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Government by bureaus; specifically, excessive multiplication of, and concentration of power in, administrative bureaus.
  • n. The body of officials administering such bureaus, considered collectively.
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  • n. nonelective government officials
  • n. a government that is administered primarily by bureaus that are staffed with nonelective officials
  • n. any organization in which action is obstructed by insistence on unnecessary procedures and red tape
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    governance    monarchy    bureaucrat    corporation    organization   
     
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