Synonyms for Bureaucracy
byʊˈrɒk rə sibu·reau·cra·cy

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:2.3 / 3 votes

1. bureaucracy, bureaucratismnoun

   nonelective government officials

   Synonyms:
   bureaucratism, bureaucracy

2. bureaucracynoun

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

   Synonyms:
   bureaucratism

3. bureaucracynoun

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

   Synonyms:
   bureaucratism

Matched Categories

1. • Government
   • Organization

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "bureaucracy":

   tape, red-tape, bureaucratism, bureaucratic, bureaucratisation, paperwork, officialdom

How to pronounce Bureaucracy?

How to say Bureaucracy in sign language?

Words popularity by usage frequency

How to use Bureaucracy in a sentence?

1. Joseph Schumpeter:

   Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.

2. Mary McCarthy:

   Bureaucracy, the rule of no one has become the modern form of despotism.

3. Chief Executive Bill Winters:

   The group needs to kick-start performance, reduce its cost base and bureaucracy ... and speed up decision making.

4. Leah Spivey:

   This is a case where you have an employer who has expended a lot of effort recruiting someone and they’ve been caught up in this morass, this mess of bureaucracy.

5. Stuart Rose:

   I've traded with European Union all my life, if I was to say' European Union's all bloody wonderful, they're all lovely, they all love us, there's no bureaucracy, there's no gerrymandering... that would be complete rubbish. European Union has a strange DNA and European Union works.