Bureaucracy Illustrations
Bureaucracynoun
Government by bureaus or their administrators or officers.
Mandarinatenoun
(obsolete) The status of holding a position as a mandarin.
Bureaucracynoun
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.
‘At that time the administration replaced the system of patronage in the civil service with a bureaucracy.’;
Mandarinatenoun
The collective body of mandarins.
Bureaucracynoun
The body of officers and administrators, especially of a government.
Mandarinatenoun
A political form of rule by mandarins.
Bureaucracynoun
Excessive red tape and routine in any administration, body or behaviour.
‘The head of the civil service promised to clamp down on bureaucracy.’;
Mandarinatenoun
(figuratively) A type of government marked by excessive bureaucracy and Byzantine regulations.
Bureaucracynoun
A system of carrying on the business of government by means of departments or bureaus, each under the control of a chief, in contradiction to a system in which the officers of government have an associated authority and responsibility; also, government conducted on this system.
Mandarinatenoun
The collective body of officials or persons of rank in China.
Bureaucracynoun
Government officials, collectively; - used especially of nonelected government officials.
Bureaucracynoun
nonelective government officials
Bureaucracy
The term bureaucracy () may refer both to a body of non-elected governing officials (bureaucrats) and to an administrative policy-making group. Historically, a bureaucracy was a government administration managed by departments staffed with non-elected officials.
