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BUREAUCRATISM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Nonelective government officials
Synonyms:
bureaucracy; bureaucratism
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("bureaucratism" is a kind of...):
government officials; officialdom (people elected or appointed to administer a government)
Meronyms (members of "bureaucratism"):
civil service (government workers; usually hired on the basis of competitive examinations)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bureaucratism"):
Pentagon (the United States military establishment)
