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BUREAUCRATISM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bureaucratism mean? 

BUREAUCRATISM (noun)
  The noun BUREAUCRATISM has 1 sense:

1. nonelective government officialsplay

  Familiarity information: BUREAUCRATISM used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BUREAUCRATISM (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Nonelective government officials

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

bureaucracy; bureaucratism

Hypernyms ("bureaucratism" is a kind of...):

government officials; officialdom (people elected or appointed to administer a government)

Meronyms (members of "bureaucratism"):

civil service (government workers; usually hired on the basis of competitive examinations)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bureaucratism"):

Pentagon (the United States military establishment)


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