noun (plural bureaucracies)
1 [U] (often disapproving) the system of official rules and ways of doing things that a government or an organization has, especially when these seem to be too complicated:
unnecessary / excessive bureaucracy * We need to reduce paperwork and bureaucracy in the company.
2 [U,C] a system of government in which there are a large number of state officials who are not elected; a country with such a system:
the power of the state bureaucracy * living in a modern bureaucracy
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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