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bureau
  1. An administrative unit of government; office.
  2. An organization or office for collecting or providing information or news.
  3. An office (room where clerical or professional duties are performed).
  4. (chiefly Britain) A desk, usually with a cover and compartments that are located above the level of the writing surface rather than underneath, and often used for storing papers.
  5. (US) A chest of drawers for clothes.
  6. Synonyms:
  7. Examples:
    1. “Like their colleagues in the tourism bureau, the editors of Bohío pushed to construct a facilitated discovery for potential investors and travelers.”
      “They later found that the writing bureau had been broken into but nothing has been stolen.”
      “This bureau should shoulder the responsibility for all the criminal correction and criminal prevention affairs.”
bureaucracy
  1. Government by bureaus or their administrators or officers.
  2. (business, organizational theory) A system of administration based upon organisation into bureaus, division of labour, a hierarchy of authority, etc., designed to dispose of a large body of work in a routine manner.
  3. The body of officers and administrators, especially of a government.
  4. Any administration, body, or behavior characterised by excessive red tape and routine.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “There is no way of avoiding the tedious bureaucracy present, at different levels, in this part of the world.”
      “Centralized registration would involve more paperwork, more computerization, and more tedious bureaucracy.”
      “Only a special stratum of bureaucrats, those who are not administrative officials, make up the core of the governing bureaucracy, or, in my terminology, of the new class. This is actually a party or political bureaucracy.”
bureaucratese
  1. (informal, pejorative) A style of language, typically used by bureaucrats, that involves jargon or euphemism to the detriment of broader understanding.
  2. (informal, pejorative) Wordy, ostentatious talk or writing that resembles bureaucratic writing.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “During the board meeting, the CEO used an excessive amount of bureaucratese, making it difficult for the employees to fully understand the company's new strategic plan.”
      “This sounds like bureaucratese for public relations, so I would feel pretty safe adding this into the overhead costs.”
      “Couched in first-class bureaucratese, the document lists the programs that city staff recommend be slashed.”
bureausis
  1. (psychology) A psychological aversion to bureaucracies or bureaucratic behaviors, which are perceived to be impersonal and dehumanizing.
burocracy
  1. Structure and regulations in place to control activity. Usually in large organizations and government operations.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The reason why these problems arise is due to the small scale of individual disbursements and burocracy imposed by the recent Labour Govenment.”
bureaucratization
  1. The formation of, or the conversion of something into, a bureaucracy.
  2. Examples:
    1. “I can't say about the situation today, but I can't say that this tradition and this culture is opposed to the bureaucratization of culture.”
      “Diversification can also imply increased bureaucratization and operational controls within firms and inhibit innovation.”
      “It also gives grounds for caution at the possibility of undue government interference or excessive bureaucratization.”
bureaucratist
bureaugamy
  1. marriage (literal or metaphorical) to a bureaucracy
bureaucrat
  1. An official who is part of a bureaucracy.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “In such systems, the role of the party man or woman in government has been largely indistinguishable from that of obedient bureaucrat.”
      “He asks why he should be made to pay for the incompetence of the bureaucrat that bungled the repossession.”
      “A bureaucrat had a brainstorm, and the three-letter system was born, giving a seemingly endless 17, 576 different combinations.”
bureaucratisation
  1. Alternative spelling of bureaucratization
  2. Examples:
    1. “Many unions have suffered from years of bureaucratisation by right wing careerists and New Labour sycophants.”
      “It was he who first identified the growing danger posed to the October Revolution by the bureaucratisation of the Soviet party and state apparatus.”
      “Having conquered New Zealand years ago the army is beginning to lose its elan and ferocity and is drifting into empty formalism and bureaucratisation.”
bureaucratitis
  1. Excessive bureaucracy; red tape.
bureaucratism
  1. bureaucratic policies or behaviour
bureaucratie
  1. Alternative form of bureaucracy
bureautic
  1. (psychology) a person suffering from bureausis
burocrat
  1. rare spelling of bureaucrat
bureautics
  1. Alternative form of bureautic
bureautics
  1. plural of bureautic
bureautic
  1. office automation
bureaucratisations
  1. plural of bureaucratisation
bureaucratizations
  1. plural of bureaucratization
bureaucratisms
  1. plural of bureaucratism
bureaucratists
  1. plural of bureaucratist
bureaucraties
  1. plural of bureaucratie
bureaucracies
  1. plural of bureaucracy
  2. Examples:
    1. “Sweeping lawsuits like the ones brought by Lowry have long been a favorite tool for shaking up torpid child welfare bureaucracies.”
      “Nor is it a surprise that large bureaucracies favor cookie-cutter solutions that may not apply to any given problem.”
      “The premise is that traditional government bureaucracies systematically misallocate scarce resources.”
bureaucrats
  1. plural of bureaucrat
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “O'Grady's depiction of treachery and oppression by Elizabethan bureaucrats recalled contemporary parallels, thought the reviewer.”
      “On the other hand the bureaucrats were wedded to social partnership and wanted to avoid conflict with the authorities at all costs.”
      “Executive decision-makers, both cabinet-level politicians and policy bureaucrats, are the key actors in policy formation.”
burocrats
  1. plural of burocrat
  2. Examples:
    1. “Latour supports the works done by scientists, politicians, economists, burocrats, and moralists.”
      “They might only be burocrats doing their jobs but it only takes the odd one or two to let the side down for all the others who are doing a sterling job.”
bureaus
  1. plural of bureau
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Dr Gelfer-Jorgensen lists and discusses the various types of chairs, sofas, bureaus and beds.”
      “Lenders, credit bureaus and businesses argue that the inconvenience created by a credit freeze outweighs potential benefits.”
      “It boasts well-staffed bureaus in Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx, and publishes special zoned editions for those boroughs.”
bureaux
  1. plural of bureau
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The president is setting up a department to oversee all intelligence and security bureaux.”
      “How to weld these bureaux into a united and effective inspection system is still under consideration.”
      “She said the York bureau was liaising with other bureaux in the North East and hoping to work with the Inland Revenue to improve the system.”
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