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1. Administration of a government chiefly through departments which are staffed with non-elected officials: The entrenched bureaucracies in the government have caused many delays in processing important payments to those who are entitled to tax refunds.
2. The management or administration which is marked by hierarchical authority among numerous offices and by fixed procedures: Some government offices are accused of being a rigid bureaucracy and thus impeding or slowing down actions because of their overly strict adherence to rules or regulations.
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2. The management or administration which is marked by hierarchical authority among numerous offices and by fixed procedures: Some government offices are accused of being a rigid bureaucracy and thus impeding or slowing down actions because of their overly strict adherence to rules or regulations.
To satisfy the government bureaucracy, James and Jane had to fill out several different forms and then they had to wait for some weeks before they obtained the payment that they had coming to them.
3. An administrative system in which the need or inclination to follow rigid or complex procedures interferes with efficient and effective actions: Innovative or new ideas too often get bogged down in red tape in a bureaucracy.Too often bureaucracies insist on going through rigid routines, resulting in delays in making decisions or in carrying out requests. This is also known as "red tape" which comes from the former use of red or pink tape to tie up or to seal official documents for security reasons.
Too often a bureaucracy is where more is said than is actually done.
Red tape is what binds bureaucracy together and it represents projects that are often never completed until the weight of the paper work is equal to the weight of all the workers who are involved.
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After all is said and done, more is said than done: bureaucratic quotes.
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Quotes: Bureaucracy, Bureaucrats, Part 2
After all is said and done, more is said than done: bureaucratic quotes.
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“bureaucracy”
(situation in which less and less is done by more and more officials; government agency where after all is said and done, more is said than done)
(an agency where after all is said and done, more is said than done.)
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“bureaucracy”
bureaucracy
1. An administrative system, especially in a government, that divides work into specific categories carried out by special departments of non-elected officials.
2. An organizational model that vests (bestows a power on) individuals with authority and spheres of competence in a predetermined hierarchy with abstract rules and selection by test.
2. An organizational model that vests (bestows a power on) individuals with authority and spheres of competence in a predetermined hierarchy with abstract rules and selection by test.
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A system of government or business which has many complicated rules and ways of doing things all of which slow any effective actions or results; also known as, red tape. (1)
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