Synonym: bureaucratism. Similar words: bureau, democracy, meritocracy, lucrative, accuracy, crack, conspiracy, creature. Meaning: [bjʊə'rɒkrəsɪ] n. 1. nonelective government officials 2. a government that is administered primarily by bureaus that are staffed with nonelective officials 3. any organization in which action is obstructed by insistence on unnecessary procedures and red tape.
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121) He also flouted the censorship efforts of the Vatican bureaucracy, the Curia, by talking to journalists.
122) Such a proliferation of bureaucracy is an inevitable consequence of the expansion of the activities of the state.
123) It is a mix of staff, says Shandell(sentencedict.com), which also helps get things done when dealing with ministerial bureaucracy.
124) Are you puzzled by the fact that Congress does little to remedy those defects in the bureaucracy against which it constantly rails?
125) But not in the bureaucracy, save by death or retirement.
126) Lastly, there is the question of the extent to which the bureaucracy is responsive to citizens in general.
127) Thus he failed to build a base in the bureaucracy for the policy.
128) In the leaner 1990s that headquarters glamour is increasingly seen as gluttony - an unnecessary layer of bureaucracy and overheads.
129) It is the peculiar nature of the bureaucracy that sensible initiatives like this arouse great resentment and efforts at evasion.
130) The make-believe could be eliminated if Congress systematically traced its laws through the bureaucracy to see what finally happened after their enactment.
131) These various forms of differentiation within the bureaucracy are vital in the understanding of the formulation and implementation of conservation programmes.
132) It is, of course, possible to infer some aspects of bureaucracy in capitalist society from the functions assigned to the state.
133) However, this increasingly self-contained stratum is broader than the bureaucracy.
134) One more small step away from control by elected officials and toward a government run by the bureaucracy.
135) Most ministry officials are confident that their bureaucracy will survive in its current form.
136) That has been achieved without the need for massive bureaucracy or supranational government or any loss of sovereignty.
137) But the largest part of the permanent government is the bureaucracy, which has about three million federal civilian employees.
138) A further level of pre-censorship, imposed by a bureaucracy headed by government appointees, is an unnecessary institutional restriction on programme-makers.
139) The first is to create a new bureaucracy to make sure that insurers obey the rules.
140) Once the process is under way, empire-building adds fuel to the fire, and more fat to the bureaucracy.
141) Red tape and bureaucracy are the most frequently given reasons for people working underground.
142) In theory this process could go as far as equating marginal cost with demand so that the bureaucracy obtains all the consumer surplus.
143) For all these reasons the inner workings of the bureaucracy remain hidden from view.
144) The EU bureaucracy in Brussels has grown in size and authority.
145) How the bureaucracy relates to the ruling class is more than a matter of origins.
146) He says no company of that size can be run without some bureaucracy, and turned down job offers in big corporations.
147) Excessive bureaucracy is one accusation levelled against the group by analysts.
148) That means fewer laws and less power in the hands of the county bureaucracy.
149) The threat of imperialist attack remains, and the bureaucracy uses this threat quite consciously to periodically silence the voices of opposition.
150) The lower and even the middle ranks of the bureaucracy were to a considerable extent decentralized and independent of royal power.