Scrabble?! BUREAUCRACY

Definitions of BUREAUCRACY in various dictionaries:

noun - nonelective government officials

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

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

Administration of a government chiefly through bureaus or departments staffed with nonelected officials.

The departments and their officials as a group: promised to reorganize the federal bureaucracy.

Management or administration marked by diffusion of authority among numerous offices and adherence to inflexible rules of operation: “knew something about bureaucracy and those nameless, faceless forces that can crush the life’s blood from the individual” (Rollene W.

An administrative system in which the need or inclination to follow complex procedures impedes effective action: innovative ideas that get bogged down in red tape and bureaucracy.