bureaucracy

1. Administration of a government chiefly through bureaus or departments staffed with nonelected officials.

2. An administrative system in which the need or inclination to follow rigid or complex procedures impedes effective action: innovative ideas that get bogged down in red tape and bureaucracy.

3. Management or administration marked by hierarchical authority among numerous offices and by fixed procedures: The new department head did not know much about bureaucracy.

4. The administrative structure of a large or complex organization: a midlevel manager in a corporate bureaucracy.

5. The departments and their officials as a group: promised to reorganize the federal bureaucracy.

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Top Words by points	Points	Word Game
bureaucracy	20	Scrabble

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11 Letters	Scrabble® Points
bureaucracy	20