Synonyms for bureaucracy
byʊˈrɒk rə sibu·reau·cra·cy

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1. bureaucracy, bureaucratismnoun

   nonelective government officials

   Synonyms:
   bureaucratism

2. bureaucracynoun

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

   Synonyms:
   bureaucratism

3. bureaucracynoun

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

   Synonyms:
   bureaucratism

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1. • Government
   • Organization

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1. List of paraphrases for "bureaucracy":

   tape, red-tape, bureaucratism, bureaucratic, bureaucratisation, paperwork, officialdom

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1. Eugene McCarthy:

   The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency.

2. Dan Ives:

   I'd say 30 % of investors we talked to over the last six months thought Berlin was never going to open because of the red tape and bureaucracy, many investors were fearing [ Tesla ] would never have a beachhead in Europe and it would just be an empty factory.

3. Mike Rogers:

   Technology-driven decision-making is an essential part of our defense modernization. Current incentives in the Pentagon lead to less innovation and more bureaucracy, even a single failed test of a new technology can have serious consequences on officers’ careers. This attitude smothers innovation and reinforces using the same old ‘proven’ technologies that don’t meet modern threats.

4. John Sifton:

   What was going on was the typical chaos of a bureaucracy under the strain of immense crisis, people at checkpoints hadn't slept well in days, couldn't read the names properly or read the first name as the last name.

5. Leah Spivey:

   This is a case where you have an employer who has expended a lot of effort recruiting someone and they’ve been caught up in this morass, this mess of bureaucracy.