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bureaucracies
Variant of bureaucracy
noun pl. bureaucracies
- the administration of government through departments and subdivisions managed by sets of appointed officials following an inflexible routine
- the officials collectively
- governmental officialism or inflexible routine
- the concentration of authority in a complex structure of administrative bureaus
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