Explore Bureaucracy through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like bureaucratism or officialdom. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Bureaucracy in a sentence
Bureaucracy meaning
- Government by bureaus or their administrators or officers.
- 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.
- The body of officers and administrators, especially of a government.
Synonyms of Bureaucracy
Using Bureaucracy
- The main meaning on this page is: Government by bureaus or their administrators or officers. | 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. | The body of officers and administrators, especially of a government.
- Useful related words include: bureaucratism, government officials, officialdom, government.
- In the example corpus, bureaucracy often appears in combinations such as: the bureaucracy, bureaucracy and, of bureaucracy.
Context around Bureaucracy
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 8 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Bureaucracy
- In this selection, "bureaucracy" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, permanent, governmental, government, obtaining, avarice and urging stand out and add context to how "bureaucracy" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a permanent bureaucracy of non and against mobs bureaucracy avarice internal. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "bureaucracy" sits close to words such as attire, bates and battleground, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with bureaucracy
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Grappling with reality, there are many investment challenges including official bureaucracy in Africa. (13 words)
Beginning during the Obama administration and accelerating on Biden’s watch, the military built a vast DEI bureaucracy. (18 words)
According to dozens of people here, that grassroots aid has been crucial in the face of governmental bureaucracy and delays. (20 words)
Because as put by Estonia's fiscal chief for the bureaucracy so to speak, undersecretary Sven Kirsipuu, there have been few such exercises in the world – taking the budget apart service by service and trying to find an optimal solution. (40 words)
Barron’s referred to Mark Zuckerberg’s rationale for a round of Meta layoffs in March as an exemplar of “the Elon Musk School of Management,” highlighting the CEOs’ shared hatred of remote work and corporate bureaucracy. (37 words)
As such, he noted that in modernising the country’s public sector, focus is being placed on the efficiency of governance, the reliability of governance, reducing bureaucracy and improving the way business is done. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
Thus the international defeats, caused by the bureaucracy's shortsighted opportunism, at the same time strengthened the bureaucracy, and created conditions for the isolation and defeat of the Marxist opposition.
Bureaucracy and spoils Once elected, the politician becomes a government official and has to deal with a permanent bureaucracy of non-politicians.
According to dozens of people here, that grassroots aid has been crucial in the face of governmental bureaucracy and delays.
According to the World Economic Forum's competitiveness index, CEOs most frequently complain about Canada's inefficient government bureaucracy and high taxes - at least compared to the US.
Advocates said it was a long overdue change to insensitive bureaucracy, while critics warned it could undermine women’s rights and jeopardise single sex spaces.
And again like many, he’s struggled to navigate insurance payouts, federal and state assistance bureaucracy, obtaining building permits, and simply finding a place to shower.
Artisanal miners, who are already struggling with bureaucracy and lack of a proper legal regime to get licenses to operate legally, say the rape incident has damaged their cause even further.
A Solomonic monarch is theoretically the last supposed lone bulwark against mobs, bureaucracy, avarice, internal ethnic strife, lawlessness, foreign predation, and injustice.
As such, he noted that in modernising the country’s public sector, focus is being placed on the efficiency of governance, the reliability of governance, reducing bureaucracy and improving the way business is done.
Barron’s referred to Mark Zuckerberg’s rationale for a round of Meta layoffs in March as an exemplar of “the Elon Musk School of Management,” highlighting the CEOs’ shared hatred of remote work and corporate bureaucracy.
Because as put by Estonia's fiscal chief for the bureaucracy so to speak, undersecretary Sven Kirsipuu, there have been few such exercises in the world – taking the budget apart service by service and trying to find an optimal solution.
Beginning during the Obama administration and accelerating on Biden’s watch, the military built a vast DEI bureaucracy.
But Castro pointed out that the number of undersecretaries and secretaries far exceeded those of the Department of Education, which is the biggest bureaucracy in the country.
David Bolton, 66, was admitted to Canberra Hospital with breathing difficulties, as he fought the ACT bureaucracy and an unsympathetic neighbour in Fraser on woodsmoke pollution.
Grappling with reality, there are many investment challenges including official bureaucracy in Africa.
He also sought support from the Opposition and bureaucracy, urging cooperation for the financial Bills beneficial for the state’s treasury.
He loathed bureaucracy and red tape and would regularly express his thoughts in ‘Letters to the Editor’ in and on local radio.
He similarly has enjoyed support from sizeable sections of the civil bureaucracy, superior judiciary, media persons, and civil society favorable to the ostensibly anti-corruption narrative.
If Google’s bloated bureaucracy was causing them grief, the explosion of interest in generative AI will have pushed many of them over the edge.
Instead, the sanctions will push the regime to transform itself into its darkest state, create grounds for miscalculations, and decrease the competency of the bureaucracy, leading to irrational, mistaken choices.
Common combinations with bureaucracy
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the bureaucracy 39×
- bureaucracy and 30×
- of bureaucracy 12×
- bureaucracy is 12×
- federal bureaucracy 12×
- bureaucracy in 9×
- government bureaucracy 7×
- and bureaucracy 7×
- bureaucracy to 6×
- in bureaucracy 6×