Both Uses
bureaucracy
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- Add another fifteen minutes of bureaucracy before I reached the nurse who wrote that report.†
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- Subtracting the half hour waiting to be admitted and wading through bureaucracy takes us to eleven o'clock.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(bureaucracy) nonelective government officials; or an excessively complicated or unresponsive administrative system
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)