noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
central
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Government has reduced the burden of regulation and the need for central bureaucracy .
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The central bureaucracy was embryonic and his provincial officials were spread wafer-thin and proved very difficult to supervise.
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Mr Birt himself has stressed his desire to transfer support services out from the central bureaucracy in London.
federal
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The federal bureaucracy has been bloated.
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Such creativity simply does not exist in Washington, and if it did, it could not surmount the federal bureaucracy .
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Many are high-level members of the federal bureaucracy and commute up Route 5 each day into Washington.
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Meanwhile, organized labor and the thousands of new patronage jobs in the federal bureaucracy gave the president powerful political leverage.
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Unfortunately, there is a mentality in the federal bureaucracy that defies change and rejects innovation.
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The case dragged through the federal bureaucracy for seven years, before she finally gave up her citizenship voluntarily in 1971.
soviet
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Even where secrecy was not ordered from above, the squabbling Soviet bureaucracy worked against the efficient collection and distribution of data.
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state
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The economic interests of the state bureaucracy are largely realized through state revenue-raising.
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The state bureaucracy works very closely with firms to implement a comprehensive, collaborative strategy for economic growth.
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Indigenous economic interests and institutions become dependent on the state bureaucracy .
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Together, they come up against an extraordinarily barbaric state bureaucracy and not a few disappointments.
■ VERB
create
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The first is to create a new bureaucracy to make sure that insurers obey the rules.
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Once we have created a great bureaucracy , it will be there for ever.
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In July a Pravda editorial had attacked perestroika for creating a new bureaucracy without solving the old problems.
cut
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Stella the personnel administrator will not simply push paper around in Personnel but will take action to cut down on the bureaucracy .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The company's huge bureaucracy limits creativity and independent thinking.
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The EU bureaucracy in Brussels has grown in size and authority.
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We need less bureaucracy in the school system - teachers should be allowed to make more decisions.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He disliked committee procedures and bureaucracy .
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In fact, without evolutionary and learning pressures, the society of mind in a brain would turn into a bureaucracy .
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In the leaner 1990s that headquarters glamour is increasingly seen as gluttony - an unnecessary layer of bureaucracy and overheads.
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Once the process is under way, empire-building adds fuel to the fire, and more fat to the bureaucracy .
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One more small step away from control by elected officials and toward a government run by the bureaucracy .
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The Bill perpetuates all the anomalies, unfairness, regional variations and bureaucracy that made the poll tax unpopular.
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The consequence may well be the forms of bureaucracy that so occupy the attention of administrative reformers.
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The organization is made up of 346, 000 lawyers, you see, and there is bureaucracy on top of bureaucracy.