bureaucracy

This could—according to the official line—improve public services, cut down on voter fraud, and reduce bureaucracy.
Brazil is sliding into techno-authoritarianism|Tate Ryan-Mosley|August 19, 2020|MIT Technology Review
Your new identity involves much bureaucracy—driver’s license, passport, health insurance card must be updated, and so you stop to have your photo taken.
The first murder|Katie McLean|August 19, 2020|MIT Technology Review
The culprit is bureaucracy—with its authoritarian power structures, suffocating rules, and toxic politicking.
How to break free of bureaucracy in the workplace|Michele Zanini|August 17, 2020|Quartz
That, says Vondracek, is why his experience is a lesson for countries battling with clunky bureaucracies but endowed with the power of a relatively savvy and tech-minded population.
Want to Fix Your Country? Czech This Box|Dan Peleschuk|August 13, 2020|Ozy

That’s particularly true when it comes to the presidency, which oversees a vast federal bureaucracy influencing trillions of dollars in spending.
Oil companies are backing Trump’s re-election after giving heavily to Clinton in 2016|Michael J. Coren|August 7, 2020|Quartz
Senseless bureaucracy is part of what spawned the Tea Party.
Red Tape Is Strangling Good Samaritans|Philip K. Howard|December 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Depressing is really what Cuba has become—repression, bureaucracy, and crippling poverty.
The Five Best Books on Cuba|William O’Connor, Malcolm Jones|December 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He was widely perceived as having been outplayed by a vast military bureaucracy that he never sought to tame.
Hagel Takes a Bullet for Obama: Inside the Defense Secretary’s Sudden Firing|Shane Harris, Tim Mak|November 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
They described the challenges of finding work and of dealing with the military bureaucracy.
Live from San Antonio: Women in the World Texas!|Women in the World|October 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The sheer amount of redundant bureaucracy needs to be eliminated.
America’s Advanced Stealth Jet Flies on 1990s Tech|Dave Majumdar|October 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Almost the worst kind of government that can be placed upon a people is a bureaucracy.
Proceedings of the Second National Conservation Congress|Various
And in the same manner as in Prussia, a portion of the bureaucracy joined the bourgeoisie.
Revolution and Counter-Revolution|Karl Marx
Roger found all the civilisation, culture, and well-ordered bureaucracy of the Moor firmly established.
Cathedral Cities of Italy|William Wiehe Collins
In the first place, may I point out that we have not up to now non-co-operated with the Bureaucracy?
Freedom Through Disobedience|C. R. (Chittaranjan) Das
The time must soon come when the Bureaucracy must yield or withdraw the Reforms Act.
Freedom Through Disobedience|C. R. (Chittaranjan) Das

British Dictionary definitions for bureaucracy

bureaucracy

/ (bjʊəˈrɒkrəsɪ) /

noun plural -cies

a system of administration based upon organization into bureaus, division of labour, a hierarchy of authority, etc: designed to dispose of a large body of work in a routine manner

government by such a system

government or other officials collectively

any administration in which action is impeded by unnecessary official procedures and red tape

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Cultural definitions for bureaucracy

bureaucracy

[ (byoo-rok-ruh-see) ]

A formal, hierarchical organization with many levels in which tasks, responsibilities, and authority are delegated among individuals, offices, or departments, held together by a central administration. According to many sociologists and anthropologists, the development of bureaucratic organizations is necessary for the emergence of any modern civilization. (See Max Weber.)

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Today, the term bureaucracy suggests a lack of initiative, excessive adherence to rules and routine, red tape (see also red tape), inefficiency, or, even more serious, an impersonal force dominating the lives of individuals. (See Big Brother is watching you.)

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