Bureaucracy
noun
A system of government or business that has many complicated rules and ways of doing things.
There is too much bureaucracy in the government.
Often appears as...
- cut through bureaucracy
- tangled in bureaucracy
noun
A group of non-elected government officials who implement the rules, laws, and functions of their institution.
The decision was made by the bureaucracy, not by elected officials.
Often appears as...
- bloated bureaucracy
- faceless bureaucracy
noun
A way of organizing a society, company, or institution where important decisions are made by state officials rather than elected representatives.
Many criticize bureaucracy as being inefficient and too focused on rules.
Often appears as...
- inefficient bureaucracy
- bureaucratic red tape
noun
A system of government or business that has many complicated rules and ways of doing things.
There is too much bureaucracy in the government.
Often appears as...
- cut through bureaucracy
- tangled in bureaucracy
noun
A group of non-elected government officials who implement the rules, laws, and functions of their institution.
The decision was made by the bureaucracy, not by elected officials.
Often appears as...
- bloated bureaucracy
- faceless bureaucracy
noun
A way of organizing a society, company, or institution where important decisions are made by state officials rather than elected representatives.
Many criticize bureaucracy as being inefficient and too focused on rules.
Often appears as...
- inefficient bureaucracy
- bureaucratic red tape
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Complexity
Indicates a cumbersome and complex process often seen as unnecessary.
To get a permit, you must navigate the bureaucracy of multiple departments.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
Often used to express frustration with procedural delays.
Our project launch is delayed due to endless bureaucracy.
Pro Tip 3/3Impersonality
Implies a lack of personal touch or consideration for individual situations.
She felt lost in the bureaucracy, like just another number.
Pro Tip 1/3Complexity
Indicates a cumbersome and complex process often seen as unnecessary.
To get a permit, you must navigate the bureaucracy of multiple departments.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
Often used to express frustration with procedural delays.
Our project launch is delayed due to endless bureaucracy.
Pro Tip 3/3Impersonality
Implies a lack of personal touch or consideration for individual situations.
She felt lost in the bureaucracy, like just another number.
Pro Tip 1/3Complexity
Indicates a cumbersome and complex process often seen as unnecessary.
To get a permit, you must navigate the bureaucracy of multiple departments.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
Often used to express frustration with procedural delays.
Our project launch is delayed due to endless bureaucracy.
Pro Tip 3/3Impersonality
Implies a lack of personal touch or consideration for individual situations.
She felt lost in the bureaucracy, like just another number.
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Ricardo Semler: Radical...
There is no other question. Nobody has any other question. We have variations of this one question, from three onwards. So when you spend time in a company, in a bureaucracy, in an organization and you're saying, boy -- how many people do you know who on their death beds said, boy, I wish I had spent more time at the office?
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Upgrading management...
demonstrate complex can we relax the bureaucracy and increase the speed and this is infuriating because we solve this problem in our personal lives at home were used to technology acting like a coach and helping us who in this room hasn't used a mapping application to coach you on how to go anywhere new the
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Samantha Power: Shaking...
but actually making it such. Governments will never gravitate towards crimes of this magnitude naturally or eagerly. As we saw, they haven't even gravitated towards protecting our ports or reigning in loose nukes. Why would we expect in a bureaucracy that it would orient itself towards distant suffering?
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Tim Cope: On the Trail...
to the plains of Hungary a country that had been more fairytale than truth until now and after a six-week battle on the border with bureaucracy we got a cross and to be welcomed by these people was a wonderful experience for these people my journey had special significance because their ancestors the
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Ugly history: The 1937...
but due to corrupt bureaucracy, barely any of these funds reached survivors or their families. Neither Trujillo nor anyone in his government was ever punished for this crime against humanity. The legacy of the massacre remains a source of tension between the two countries.
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What a digital...
And have I mentioned that I have not visited a state office for almost seven years? Indeed, one of the features of the modern life that has no reason to exist anymore, considering technological possibilities of today, is the labyrinth of bureaucracy.
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Zoo Quest For A Dragon...
and we thought our troubles were over we had filmed him and we had caught him but we reckoned without one thing unfortunately in the end bureaucracy defeated us and we weren't given a permit to export those dragons from indonesia so i'm afraid
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What makes something...
It's not the absurdity of bureaucracy alone, but the irony of the character's circular reasoning in reaction to it that is emblematic of Kafka's writing. His tragicomic stories act as a form of mythology for the modern industrial age,
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How we can eat our...
this takes more money and none of this demands a bureaucracy but it does demand that you think things differently and you are prepared to bend budgets and work programs in order to create that supportive framework that compute
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A New Understanding of...
Without kings, without bureaucracies, without standing armies, these early farming populations fostered the development of mathematical knowledge, advanced metallurgy. They learned to cultivate olives, vines and date palms.
Video examples
Ricardo Semler: Radical...
There is no other question. Nobody has any other question. We have variations of this one question, from three onwards. So when you spend time in a company, in a bureaucracy, in an organization and you're saying, boy -- how many people do you know who on their death beds said, boy, I wish I had spent more time at the office?
Video examples
Upgrading management...
demonstrate complex can we relax the bureaucracy and increase the speed and this is infuriating because we solve this problem in our personal lives at home were used to technology acting like a coach and helping us who in this room hasn't used a mapping application to coach you on how to go anywhere new the
Video examples
Samantha Power: Shaking...
but actually making it such. Governments will never gravitate towards crimes of this magnitude naturally or eagerly. As we saw, they haven't even gravitated towards protecting our ports or reigning in loose nukes. Why would we expect in a bureaucracy that it would orient itself towards distant suffering?
Video examples
Tim Cope: On the Trail...
to the plains of Hungary a country that had been more fairytale than truth until now and after a six-week battle on the border with bureaucracy we got a cross and to be welcomed by these people was a wonderful experience for these people my journey had special significance because their ancestors the
Video examples
Ugly history: The 1937...
but due to corrupt bureaucracy, barely any of these funds reached survivors or their families. Neither Trujillo nor anyone in his government was ever punished for this crime against humanity. The legacy of the massacre remains a source of tension between the two countries.
Video examples
What a digital...
And have I mentioned that I have not visited a state office for almost seven years? Indeed, one of the features of the modern life that has no reason to exist anymore, considering technological possibilities of today, is the labyrinth of bureaucracy.
Video examples
Zoo Quest For A Dragon...
and we thought our troubles were over we had filmed him and we had caught him but we reckoned without one thing unfortunately in the end bureaucracy defeated us and we weren't given a permit to export those dragons from indonesia so i'm afraid
Video examples
What makes something...
It's not the absurdity of bureaucracy alone, but the irony of the character's circular reasoning in reaction to it that is emblematic of Kafka's writing. His tragicomic stories act as a form of mythology for the modern industrial age,
Video examples
How we can eat our...
this takes more money and none of this demands a bureaucracy but it does demand that you think things differently and you are prepared to bend budgets and work programs in order to create that supportive framework that compute
Video examples
A New Understanding of...
Without kings, without bureaucracies, without standing armies, these early farming populations fostered the development of mathematical knowledge, advanced metallurgy. They learned to cultivate olives, vines and date palms.
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Quote examples
Valerie Plame
American Writer
My CIA colleagues were smart, dedicated, funny, and creative. Yes, there was sometimes stifling bureaucracy, boredom, colleagues who never should have been there, and later, deeply disturbing stories of the CIA's involvement in torture. Still, I got to do work I thought was incredibly important and, many times, had fun doing it.
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Ahmed Zewail
Egyptian Scientist
Higher education should be based on quality, not quantity; receive merit-based funding; and be free of unnecessary bureaucracy. Not the least of the benefits of educational reform is to foster the pride of achievement at national and international levels.
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Ali Wong
American Actress
I'm addicted to picking my nose. In a world of red tape and bureaucracy, where it takes forever to buy a house or get a cell-phone plan going, it's so instant to just stick your finger up there and go for something your own body produces.
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Jaime Harrison
American Politician
With a common-sense approach, we can reduce waste, fraud and abuse, cut back on unnecessary bureaucracy and provide for the pillars of a strong economy and life in our state.
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Jesse Helms
American Politician
Such schemes take money from people who can least afford to spend it to support an unneeded bureaucracy that eats money people thought they were providing for education.
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Daniel Tammet
English Writer
Retaining a sense of control is really important. I like to do things in my own time, and in my own style, so an office with targets and bureaucracy just wouldn't work.
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Alastair Wood
I see my job as being to facilitate the life of clinical researchers so that they can be more productive, and trying to keep the bureaucracy from getting in their way.
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Arthur Capper
American Politician
Any plan of administration which contemplates a concentrating of responsibility is open to the dangers which follow the creation of a bureaucracy.
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Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Filipino Statesman
We will downsize the government, motivate excess employees to become entrepreneurs, and increase the pay of a lean and mean bureaucracy.
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Carly Fiorina
American Businesswoman
I understand how bureaucracies work. And that's important because our government has become a vast, huge, bloated, corrupt bureaucracy.
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Valerie Plame
American Writer
My CIA colleagues were smart, dedicated, funny, and creative. Yes, there was sometimes stifling bureaucracy, boredom, colleagues who never should have been there, and later, deeply disturbing stories of the CIA's involvement in torture. Still, I got to do work I thought was incredibly important and, many times, had fun doing it.
Quote examples
Ahmed Zewail
Egyptian Scientist
Higher education should be based on quality, not quantity; receive merit-based funding; and be free of unnecessary bureaucracy. Not the least of the benefits of educational reform is to foster the pride of achievement at national and international levels.
Quote examples
Ali Wong
American Actress
I'm addicted to picking my nose. In a world of red tape and bureaucracy, where it takes forever to buy a house or get a cell-phone plan going, it's so instant to just stick your finger up there and go for something your own body produces.
Quote examples
Jaime Harrison
American Politician
With a common-sense approach, we can reduce waste, fraud and abuse, cut back on unnecessary bureaucracy and provide for the pillars of a strong economy and life in our state.
Quote examples
Jesse Helms
American Politician
Such schemes take money from people who can least afford to spend it to support an unneeded bureaucracy that eats money people thought they were providing for education.
Quote examples
Daniel Tammet
English Writer
Retaining a sense of control is really important. I like to do things in my own time, and in my own style, so an office with targets and bureaucracy just wouldn't work.
Quote examples
Alastair Wood
I see my job as being to facilitate the life of clinical researchers so that they can be more productive, and trying to keep the bureaucracy from getting in their way.
Quote examples
Arthur Capper
American Politician
Any plan of administration which contemplates a concentrating of responsibility is open to the dangers which follow the creation of a bureaucracy.
Quote examples
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Filipino Statesman
We will downsize the government, motivate excess employees to become entrepreneurs, and increase the pay of a lean and mean bureaucracy.
Quote examples
Carly Fiorina
American Businesswoman
I understand how bureaucracies work. And that's important because our government has become a vast, huge, bloated, corrupt bureaucracy.
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