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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 officials
Familiarity information: BUREAUCRATISM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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