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A system of carrying on the business of government by means of departments or bureaus, each under the control of a chief, in contradiction to a system in which the officers of government have an associated authority and …
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- n. A system of carrying on the business of government by means of departments or bureaus, each under the control of a chief, in contradiction to a system in which the officers of government have an associated authority and responsibility; also, government conducted on this system.
- n. Government officials, collectively.
- n. nonelective government officials
- n. a government that is administered primarily by bureaus that are staffed with nonelective officials
- n. any organization in which action is obstructed by insistence on unnecessary procedures and red tape
- 1. A system of carrying on the business of government by means of departments or bureaus, each under the control of a chief, in contradiction to a system in which the officers of government have an associated authority and responsibility; also, government conducted on this system. 2. Government officials, collectively.
- n:100 n. nonelective government officials n. a government that is administered primarily by bureaus that are staffed with nonelective officials n. any organization in which action is obstructed by insistence on unnecessary procedures and red tape