bureaucracy
US: /bjʊˈɹɑkɹəsi/
UK: /bjɔːɹˈɒkɹəsˌi/
UK: /bjɔːɹˈɒkɹəsˌi/
English Vietnamese dictionary
bureaucracy /bjuə'rɔkrəsi/
- danh từ
- quan lại, công chức (nói chung); bọn quan liêu
- chế độ quan liêu; bộ máy quan liêu
- thói quan liêu
Advanced English dictionary
+ noun (plural bureaucracies)
1 [U] (often disapproving) the system of official rules and ways of doing things that a government or an organization has, especially when these seem to be too complicated: unnecessary / excessive bureaucracy + We need to reduce paperwork and bureaucracy in the company.
2 [U, C] a system of government in which there are a large number of state officials who are not elected; a country with such a system: the power of the state bureaucracy + living in a modern bureaucracy
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
officialdom, officialism, government, red tape, administration, authorities:
The bureaucracy survives because the officials rely on graft for their income.
Collocation dictionary
1 administrative system
ADJ.
vast | government, state
2 official rules and procedures
ADJ.
cumbersome, excessive, unnecessary
VERB + BUREAUCRACY
cut out, eliminate, reduce
The organization has promised to eliminate cumbersome and unnecessary bureaucracy.
| increase
Concise English dictionary
bureaucraciesbjʊə'rɒkrəsɪ
noun
+nonelective government officials
+a government that is administered primarily by bureaus that are staffed with nonelective officials
+any organization in which action is obstructed by insistence on unnecessary procedures and red tape
