bureaucracy

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noun

Plural noun:

bureaucraciesbureaucratiebureau-ocracyburocracy

1.
(countable, uncountable)Government by bureaus or their administrators or officers.
2.
(countable, uncountable)(business, 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.
(countable, uncountable)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.
(countable, derogatory, uncountable)(chiefly derogatory) Excessive red tape and routine in any administration, body or behaviour.
The head of the civil service promised to clamp down on bureaucracy.

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Đồng nghĩa

papyrocracyrule through excessive regulation papyrocracy

Cùng gốc / liên quan

antibureaucracybureaucrapbureaucratbureaucratesebureaucraticbureaucraticallybureaucratizebureaucrazybureaupathologyEurocracytechnobureaucracyadhocracy

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Nguồn gốc từ

bureau From bureau + -cracy, from fr bureaucratie, coined by Jean Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay from bureau (office) + -cratie (rule of).