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bureaucracy

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

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

nonelective government officials

Synonyms:

• administration,
• authorities,
• beadledom,
• beat,
• beaten path,
• bumbledom,
• bureaucratism,
• chinoiserie,
• daily grind,
• directorate,
• government,
• grind,
• groove,
• hierarchy,
• higher echelons,
• higher-ups,
• jog trot,
• management,
• ministry,
• official jargon,
• officialdom,
• officialism,
• prelacy,
• red tape,
• red-tapeism,
• red-tapery,
• round,
• routine,
• ruling class,
• ruling classes,
• run,
• rut,
• squirrel cage,
• the Establishment,
• the administration,
• the authorities,
• the ingroup,
• the interests,
• the people upstairs,
• the power elite,
• the power structure,
• the top,
• them,
• they,
• top brass,
• track,
• treadmill,
• well-worn groove