English-Spanish translations for bureaucracy

• burocracia
  Necesitamos una revisión, no burocracia. We need a review, not bureaucracy.
  La burocracia se debe cortar de raíz. Bureaucracy must be nipped in the bud.
  Esto es burocracia pura y dura. This is bureaucracy in its purest form.

Definition of bureaucracy

• Government by bureaus or their administrators or officers
• The body of officers and administrators, especially of a government
• Excessive red tape and routine in any administration, body or behaviour

Examples

• At that time the administration replaced the system of patronage in the civil service with a bureaucracy
• apocryphal quip
• The head of the civil service promised to clamp down on bureaucracy

Related words

• bureaucrat
• bureaucratic
• bureaucratization
• bureaucratically
• bureaucratize
• bureaucratese
• antibureaucratic
• antibureaucrat
• bureaucratise