Definitions for bureaucracy

Overview of noun bureaucracy

The noun bureaucracy has 3 senses? (first 1 from tagged texts)

1. (6) bureaucracy, bureaucratism

(nonelective government officials)

2. bureaucracy

(a government that is administered primarily by bureaus that are staffed with nonelective officials)

3. bureaucracy

(any organization in which action is obstructed by insistence on unnecessary procedures and red tape)