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How to pronounce bureaucracy in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms bureaucratism
Type of government officials, officialdom
Has types pentagon
Derivation bureaucratic
Type Words
Type of authorities, government, regime
Derivation bureaucratic
Type Words
Type of organisation, organization
Derivation bureaucratic

Examples of bureaucracy

bureaucracy
Whichever it is, this extra management layer generates bureaucracy at its worst.
From the businessweek.com
The Air Force was trying to save money and avoid excessive bureaucracy, he adds.
From the businessweek.com
Dealing with the insurance companies and bureaucracy was harder than the floods.
From the independent.co.uk
Growing numbers of Chinese graduates aspire to join China's massive bureaucracy.
From the economist.com
Cuts in unnecessary bureaucracy, boards, and school administration are required.
From the sacbee.com
Regulating those choices out of existence will help nothing but the bureaucracy.
From the dispatchpolitics.com
Another worry, says Mr Heath, is that Gateway will simply mean more bureaucracy.
From the economist.com
Her critics retort that HP has stifled Autonomy with its layers off bureaucracy.
From the independent.co.uk
The pursuit of the public interest does not always require a public bureaucracy.
From the dailyherald.com
More examples
  • Nonelective government officials
  • Any organization in which action is obstructed by insistence on unnecessary procedures and red tape
  • (bureaucratic) of or relating to or resembling a bureaucrat or bureaucracy; "his bureaucratic behavior annoyed his colleagues"; "a bureaucratic nightmare"
  • Bureaucracy is the combined organizational structure, procedures, protocols, and set of regulations in place to manage activity, usually in large organizations. ...
  • Bureaucracy is a political book written by Austrian School economist and libertarian thinker Ludwig von Mises. The author's stated motivation in writing the book is his concern with the spread of socialist ideals and the increasing bureaucratization of economic life. ...
  • Bureaucracy is an interactive fiction computer game released by Infocom in 1987, scripted by popular comic science fiction author Douglas Adams. It is Infocom's twenty-fourth game.
  • (Bureaucratic) Rule by officials; routine administrative work Political & social aspects Career specialists
  • A system involving many rules and procedures and several levels of management and relying on written communication
  • You have two cows. At first the government regulates what you can feed them and when you can milk them. Then it pays you not to milk them. Then it takes both, shoots one, milks the other and pours the milk down the drain. Then it requires you to fill out forms accounting for the missing cows.