BUREAUCRACY — Definition of BUREAUCRACY
noun
1
Government by bureaus or their administrators or officers.
2
(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.
3
The body of officers and administrators, especially of a government.
The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy. (apocryphal quip)
4
Excessive red tape and routine in any administration, body or behaviour.
The head of the civil service promised to clamp down on bureaucracy.
📚 Source: en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bureaucracy
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