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BUREAUCRACY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any organization in which action is obstructed by insistence on unnecessary procedures and red tape
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("bureaucracy" is a kind of...):
organisation; organization (a group of people who work together)
Derivation:
bureaucratic (of or relating to or resembling a bureaucrat or bureaucracy)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A government that is administered primarily by bureaus that are staffed with nonelective officials
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("bureaucracy" is a kind of...):
authorities; government; regime (the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit)
Derivation:
bureaucratic (of or relating to or resembling a bureaucrat or bureaucracy)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Nonelective government officials
Synonyms:
bureaucracy; bureaucratism
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("bureaucracy" is a kind of...):
government officials; officialdom (people elected or appointed to administer a government)
Meronyms (members of "bureaucracy"):
civil service (government workers; usually hired on the basis of competitive examinations)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bureaucracy"):
Pentagon (the United States military establishment)
Derivation:
bureaucratic (of or relating to or resembling a bureaucrat or bureaucracy)
