All 3 Uses of
bureaucracy
in
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Bureaucratic cock-ups, angry men lying in mud, indecipherable strangers handing out inexplicable humiliation and an unidentified army of horsemen laughing at him in his head—what a day.†
Chpt 1bureaucratic = related to nonelective government officials or a complicated administrative system
- They are one of the most unpleasant races in the Galaxy—not actually evil, but bad-tempered, bureaucratic, officious and callous.†
Chpt 5 *
- "Well, that's bureaucracy for you," he added.†
Chpt 30
Definition:
nonelective government officials; or: an excessively complicated or unresponsive administrative system