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bureaucracy
What does bureaucracy mean?
bureaucracy (noun): the body of officers and administrators, especially of a government.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you use bureaucracy in a sentence?
- The bureaucracy is intolerable. (Tatoeba sentence #5607323 by mailohilohi, CC BY 2.0 FR)
How do you pronounce bureaucracy?
/bjʊˈɹɑkɹəsi/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does bureaucracy come from?
From bureau + -cracy, from French bureaucratie, coined by Jean Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay from bureau (“office”) + -cratie (“rule of”).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Words related to bureaucracy
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
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the body of officers and administrators, especially of a government
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