Usually means: Structured organization managing administrative tasks.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. bureaucracy: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. bureaucracy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bureaucracy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bureaucracy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bureaucracy: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bureaucracy, bureaucracy: Wordnik
  7. bureaucracy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. bureaucracy: Wiktionary
  9. bureaucracy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bureaucracy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. bureaucracy: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. bureaucracy: Dictionary.com
  13. bureaucracy: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. bureaucracy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Bureaucracy (book), Bureaucracy (disambiguation), Bureaucracy (video game), Bureaucracy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Bureaucracy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. bureaucracy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. bureaucracy: Rhymezone
  19. bureaucracy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. bureaucracy: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  21. bureaucracy: Free Dictionary
  22. bureaucracy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. bureaucracy: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. Bureaucracy: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. bureaucracy: Glossary of research economics
  2. Bureaucracy: Management Dictionary
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. Bureaucracy: Investopedia
  5. Nelson Political Science Glossary (No longer online)
  6. bureaucracy: Legal dictionary
  7. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bureaucracy: Cybernetics and Systems
  2. Bureaucracy: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sociology (No longer online)
  2. bureaucracy: Political
  3. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  4. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bureaucracy: Anthropological Terms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bureaucracy: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See bureaucracies as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Government by bureaus or their administrators or officers.
noun:  (business, organizational theory) A system of administration based upon organisation into bureaus, division of labour, a hierarchy of authority, etc., designed to dispose of a large body of work in a routine manner.
noun:  The body of officers and administrators, especially of a government.
noun:  (chiefly derogatory) Excessive red tape and routine in any administration, body or behaviour.

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