bureaucracies
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Definitions ofbureaucracies
- Government by bureaus or their administrators or officers.
- (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.
Example: "At that time the administration replaced the system of patronage in the civil service with a bureaucracy."
- The body of officers and administrators, especially of a government.
Example: "The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy. (apocryphal quip)"
- Excessive red tape and routine in any administration, body or behaviour.
Example: "The head of the civil service promised to clamp down on bureaucracy."
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