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bureaucracy

Definition:

(nou) nonelective government officials (nou) a government that is administered primarily by bureaus that are staffed with nonelective officials (nou) any organization in which action is obstructed by insistence on unnecessary procedures and red tape

Phonetic Transcription:

bjʊəˈrɒkrəsi

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The government is rife with corruption and paralyzed by an ossified bureaucracy.

It has the whiff of committees and bureaucracy.

It is the language of the court, the bureaucracy, and the army.

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