beaurocracy or bureaucracy

The French bureaucrats from whom we get this word worked at their bureaus (desks, spelled bureaux in French) in what came to be known as bureaucracies.

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• basicly vs basically
• stood vs stayed
• extend vs extent
• buttox vs buttocks
• practicle vs practical
• seam vs seem
• swam vs swum
• tooken vs took vs taken
• submittal vs submission
• gaurd vs guard

Definitions

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• n  nonelective government officials
• n  a government that is administered primarily by bureaus that are staffed with nonelective officials
• n  any organization in which action is obstructed by insistence on unnecessary procedures and red tape

News & Articles

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• Sharing a stage for the first time since primaries, Christie and Buono promote their economic records
  Both candidates trumpeted their pro-business bona fides. Christie said he has spent his term cutting government spending, shrinking the state’s bureaucracy and rolling back regulations. Buono said her efforts in the state Senate have boosted New Jersey’s economic competitiveness and helped average citizens.
  June 13, 2013 - The Record
• PULSE: How deep will the NSA phone records controversy go?
  WASHINGTON — The man who told the world about the U.S. government's gigantic data grab also talks a lot about himself. Mostly through his own words, a picture of Edward Snowden is emerging: fresh-faced computer whiz, high school dropout, wannabe Green Beret, disillusioned cog in a secret bureaucracy.
  June 13, 2013 - Waynesville Daily Guide
• Tribal leaders meet on energy hurdles
  SANDIA PUEBLO (AP) — American Indian leaders from across the U.S. are pointing to both federal and tribal politics and bureaucracy as some of the reasons energy development has been... Read more »
  June 12, 2013 - Albuquerque Journal