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bureaucracy

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bureaucracy in WordNet English dictionary

noun
  1. nonelective government officials
    bureaucracy  bureaucratism 
  2. a government that is administered primarily by bureaus that are staffed with nonelective officials
    bureaucracy 
  3. any organization in which action is obstructed by insistence on unnecessary procedures and red tape
    bureaucracy 
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