bureaucracies

Meaning of bureaucracies

noun
  1. Government by bureaus or their administrators or officers.
  2. (organizational theory) 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.
  3. The body of officers and administrators, especially of a government.
    The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy. (apocryphal quip)
  4. Excessive red tape and routine in any administration, body or behaviour.
    The head of the civil service promised to clamp down on bureaucracy.

Information about bureaucracies

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of bureaucracies is: bureaucracy.
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Hyphenation of bureaucracies

bu-reau-cra-cies

  • It consists of 4 syllables and 13 chars.
  • bureaucracies is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables

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