Inflected forms: pl. bu·reauc·ra·cies 1a. Administration of a government chiefly through bureaus or departments staffed with nonelected officials. b. The departments and their officials as a group: promised to reorganize the federal bureaucracy.2a. Management or administration marked by hierarchical authority among numerous offices and by fixed procedures: The new department head did not know much about bureaucracy.b. The administrative structure of a large or complex organization: a midlevel manager in a corporate bureaucracy.3. An administrative system in which the need or inclination to follow rigid or complex procedures impedes effective action: innovative ideas that get bogged down in red tape and bureaucracy.
ETYMOLOGY:
French bureaucratie : bureau, office; see bureau + -cratie, rule (from Old French; see –cracy).
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