bureaucracy meaning
UK /bjʊəˈrɒkrəsi/ US /bjʊˈrɑkrəsi/ 4 syllables
bureaucracy (noun): nonelective government officials.
bureaucracy has 3 meanings in this dictionary.
bureaucracy as a noun
- nonelective government officials
Synonyms: bureaucratism
Type of: government officials
Kinds: Pentagon
Related forms: bureaucratic
- a government that is administered primarily by bureaus that are staffed with nonelective officials
Type of: government
Related forms: bureaucratic
- any organization in which action is obstructed by insistence on unnecessary procedures and red tape
Type of: organization
Related forms: bureaucratic
bureaucracy in a sentence
- There was so much paperwork and bureaucracy I just gave up.
- Adolf Eichmann hated rules and was contemptuous of bureaucracy.
- Bureaucracy is a universally-denounced scourge.
- Bureaucracy is plaguing our lives.
- The bureaucracy is intolerable.
How to pronounce bureaucracy
bureaucracy is pronounced /bjʊəˈrɒkrəsi/ in British English and /bjʊˈrɑkrəsi/ in American English. It has 4 syllables, with the stress on the second syllable.
Words that rhyme with bureaucracy
Scrabble score: 20 (letter breakdown)
Word lists: words starting with BU · words ending in CY · 11-letter words
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