bureaucracy
C1UK /bjʊəˈrɒkrəsi/US /bjʊˈrɑːkrəsi/
Meaning
noun
the system of official rules and ways of doing things that a government or an organization has, especially when these seem to be too complicated
“unnecessary/excessive bureaucracy”
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