bureaucracy

• nonelective government officials
• a government that is administered primarily by bureaus that are staffed with nonelective officials
• any organization in which action is obstructed by insistence on unnecessary procedures and red tape
• A system of carrying on the business of government by means of departments or bureaus, each under the control of a chief, in contradiction to a system in which the officers of government have an associated authority and responsibility
• Government officials, collectively

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