English Dictionary

bureaucracy

IPA（発音記号）

/bjʊəˈɹɒkɹəsi/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞 軽蔑的

Government by bureaus or their administrators or officers.

日本語の意味

官僚制 / 官僚政治

The new policy aimed to curb the bureaucracy that had slowed down infrastructure projects for years.

新しい政策は、何年もインフラ整備を遅らせてきた官僚制を抑制することを目指した。

意味（1）

Government by bureaus or their administrators or officers.

However, when Britain left the European Union, ferries started to ply a direct sea link from Ireland, to save hauliers from custom's bureaucracy of driving via Britain.

意味（2）

(business, organizational theory) A system of administration based upon organisation into bureaus, division of labour, a hierarchy of authority, etc., designed to dispose of a large body of work in a routine manner.

At that time the administration replaced the system of patronage in the civil service with a bureaucracy.

意味（3）

The body of officers and administrators, especially of a government.

The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy. (apocryphal quip)

意味（4）

(chiefly derogatory) Excessive red tape and routine in any administration, body or behaviour.

The head of the civil service promised to clamp down on bureaucracy.

bureaucracies （ plural ）