BUREAUCRACY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Any organization in which action is obstructed by insistence on unnecessary procedures and red tape

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("bureaucracy" is a kind of...):

organisation; organization (a group of people who work together)

Derivation:

bureaucratic (of or relating to or resembling a bureaucrat or bureaucracy)

Meaning:

A government that is administered primarily by bureaus that are staffed with nonelective officials

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("bureaucracy" is a kind of...):

authorities; government; regime (the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit)

Derivation:

bureaucratic (of or relating to or resembling a bureaucrat or bureaucracy)

Meaning:

Nonelective government officials

Synonyms:

bureaucracy; bureaucratism

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("bureaucracy" is a kind of...):

government officials; officialdom (people elected or appointed to administer a government)

Meronyms (members of "bureaucracy"):

civil service (government workers; usually hired on the basis of competitive examinations)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bureaucracy"):

Pentagon (the United States military establishment)

Derivation:

bureaucratic (of or relating to or resembling a bureaucrat or bureaucracy)