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bureaucracy

/byoo-rok-ruh-see/US // byʊˈrɒk rə si //UK // (bjʊəˈrɒkrəsɪ) //

官僚主义,官僚机构,官僚作风,官场

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural bu·reauc·ra·cies.

    • : government by many bureaus, administrators, and petty officials.
    • : the body of officials and administrators, especially of a government or government department.
    • : excessive multiplication of, and concentration of power in, administrative bureaus or administrators.
    • : administration characterized by excessive red tape and routine.

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Examples

  • This could—according to the official line—improve public services, cut down on voter fraud, and reduce bureaucracy.

  • Your new identity involves much bureaucracy—driver’s license, passport, health insurance card must be updated, and so you stop to have your photo taken.

  • The culprit is bureaucracy—with its authoritarian power structures, suffocating rules, and toxic politicking.

  • That, says Vondracek, is why his experience is a lesson for countries battling with clunky bureaucracies but endowed with the power of a relatively savvy and tech-minded population.

  • That’s particularly true when it comes to the presidency, which oversees a vast federal bureaucracy influencing trillions of dollars in spending.

  • Senseless bureaucracy is part of what spawned the Tea Party.

  • Depressing is really what Cuba has become—repression, bureaucracy, and crippling poverty.

  • He was widely perceived as having been outplayed by a vast military bureaucracy that he never sought to tame.

  • They described the challenges of finding work and of dealing with the military bureaucracy.

  • The sheer amount of redundant bureaucracy needs to be eliminated.

  • Almost the worst kind of government that can be placed upon a people is a bureaucracy.

  • And in the same manner as in Prussia, a portion of the bureaucracy joined the bourgeoisie.

  • Roger found all the civilisation, culture, and well-ordered bureaucracy of the Moor firmly established.

  • In the first place, may I point out that we have not up to now non-co-operated with the Bureaucracy?

  • The time must soon come when the Bureaucracy must yield or withdraw the Reforms Act.