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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
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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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