adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an administrative/bureaucratic nightmare (= something that is very complicated and difficult to keep accurate records of )
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Dealing with so many new applications for asylum is an administrative nightmare.
bureaucratic barriers
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This is one of many bureacratic barriers preventing the unemployed from claiming benefit.
legal/bureaucratic/administrative hassle
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It took weeks of bureaucratic hassle to get a replacement passport.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
control
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The Burger King organisation operates a highly bureaucratic control system.
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Too many bureaucratic controls will lead to too little profit.
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Authorizing expenses, travel and recruitment are forms of bureaucratic control rather than manifestations of subordination.
interference
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He had quit, he said, because he no longer knew what to say when head teachers complained about bureaucratic interference .
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More will become involved if given the opportunity to experiment free of regulatory restraints and bureaucratic interference .
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Midge protested at what she saw as bureaucratic interference in what should have been a private grief.
organization
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As for hospitals, they are the essence of everything bad about bureaucratic organization .
power
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Conventional public administration sees the problem of bureaucratic power in these terms.
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The growth of bureaucratic power since 1900, Handlin wrote, had begun ominously to encroach upon the freedom of the individual.
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Marxism sees bureaucratic power as a matter of relations between classes.
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This is but an extension of the expertise which Max Weber claimed to be the foundation of bureaucratic power .
procedure
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Organisations that apply for the DoI's research cash say that bureaucratic procedures and shortage of staff are to blame.
process
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All investigations, nomatterwhat the books said, depended on bureaucratic processes .
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Mangano described a complicated, time-consuming bureaucratic process that the insurance programs are required to undertake to set their reimbursement rates.
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Added to this are the inefficiencies in the implementation of the decisions of the politician through the bureaucratic process .
structure
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Indeed, viewing society as a whole as an organization, we see that bureaucratic structures may generate a self-confirming equilibrium.
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Cattle stealers had to outwit a government with a modern, bureaucratic structure .
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It became logically possible for bureaucratic structures to perform all four input and all three output functions.
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Perhaps it has got bogged down in meetings and bureaucratic structures .
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It is no good advocating a more participative style of leadership if the organisation is dominated by a bureaucratic structure .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The procedure for getting funding approval is so bureaucratic !
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Trying to enforce the law regulating the length of passenger buses has been a bureaucratic nightmare.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But the bureaucratic model developed in conditions very different from those we experience today.
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By some bureaucratic error I was never recalled, and because of this I never became a Giovane Fascista.
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Chennault and Alsop were losing the bureaucratic war.
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One such is the following chart, which can be used to devise typical bureaucratic phrases that sound impressive but mean nothing.
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Postmodernism points to a more organic, less differentiated enclave of organization than those dominated by the bureaucratic designs of modernity.
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The administrators in Gamma behave in accordance with the bureaucratic ideal.
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The assumption that large authorities are costly and bureaucratic is wrong, according to the Regional Council.
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Yet government was not in any strict sense bureaucratic .