BUREAUCRATISM

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Nonelective government officials

Synonyms:

bureaucracy; bureaucratism

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

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

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

Meronyms (members of "bureaucratism"):

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

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

Pentagon (the United States military establishment)