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Bureaucratism

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the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. nonelective government officials; same as bureaucracy.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. Government by bureaus; officialism: as, Russian bureaucratism.

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n. nonelective government officials

Word Usage

"It is the effort to put an end to the phenomenon or to the vice of bureaucratism, this is to say that which we call bureaucratism, which is that hypertrophy of the administrative offices, of that accumulation of bureaucratic jobs of that type."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

government officials officialdom

Variant

bureaucracy

Hyponym

pentagon