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Word entry · 11 letters

bureaucracy

Best crossword clue

"Red tape system"

11 letters · collected on this word page

11 lettersPronunciation /bjʊəˈɹɒk.ɹə.si/Part of speech nounSorted aabccerruuyStarts with BEnds with Y1 cluesCommon crossword word
1B2U3R4E5A6U7C8R9A10C11Y

Definitions

  1. any organization in which action is obstructed by insistence on unnecessary procedures and red tape

Word origin

From bureau + -cracy, from French bureaucratie, coined by Jean Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay from bureau (“office”) + -cratie (“rule of”).

Used in a sentence

  • However, when Britain left the European Union, ferries started to ply a direct sea link from Ireland, to save hauliers from custom's bureaucracy of driving via Britain.
  • At that time the administration replaced the system of patronage in the civil service with a bureaucracy.
  • Each of the most provocative selections is facing criticism that they lack the expertise and experience to run the vast, specialized bureaucracies that would be under their control.

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