bureaucracy : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: bureaucracy	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for bureaucracy
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bureaucracy n nonelective government officials [syn: bureaucracy, bureaucratism] 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
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bureaucracy \Bureau"cracy\, n. [Bureau + Gr. [?] to be strong, to govern, [?] strength: cf. F. bureaucratie.] 1. 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; also, government conducted on this system. 2. Government officials, collectively.