Upper-Intermediate 📚 Vocabulary · #872 of 1319

bureaucracy (n.)

complex official procedures

Examples

  • Too much bureaucracy.

Key rules

  • Bureaucracy is complicated official procedures or a system of officials
  • Too much bureaucracy, government bureaucracy
  • Bureaucracy is uncountable

Common mistakes

  • The bureaucracies is slow → The bureaucracy is slow
💡 Tip: Government // Public services // Paperwork
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