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

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1. bureaucracy, bureaucratismnoun

   nonelective government officials

   Synonyms:
   bureaucratism

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

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1. • Government
   • Organization

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1. List of paraphrases for "bureaucracy":

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

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1. Christopher Mikson:

   The FDA is a massive government bureaucracy... There is a political aspect to running the FDA that is not really something that Dr. Hahn has done in the past, one of the reasons the Trump Administration would bring him in is because he is an outsider. He is an academic medical administrator from Texas by way of Philadelphia, not a Washington insider.

2. Antony Jenkins:

   We are leaving value on the table and a new approach is required. As a Group, if we aspire to bring shareholder returns forward, we need to be much more focused on what is attractive, what we are good at, and where we are good at it, we therefore need to improve revenue, costs and capital performance. We also need to become more externally focused and deal with the internal bureaucracy by becoming leaner and more agile.

3. John Ioannidis:

   Much of what makes current testing expensive is that companies are used to making a large profit, even if you were using some of the oldest technology available, a company could charge less and cut down on the cost, but everyone in a part of a large bureaucracy involved in the current system wants to take a cut.

4. Kori Schake:

   Those are all decisions the president made, not decisions that the bureaucracy somehow made for the president.

5. Peter Navarro:

   Not only did they keep the testing within the bureaucracy, they had a bad test and that set us back.