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Bureaucracy (Noun)

Any organization in which action is obstructed by insistence on unnecessary procedures and red tape.

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects.

The government's efforts to reform the healthcare system were hindered by the bureaucracy of the existing system.
The company's innovation was stifled by the layers of management and approval processes that constituted its bureaucracy.
She was frustrated by the lengthy process of getting a simple permit, a perfect example of the city's suffocating bureaucracy.
The new policy changes were met with resistance from the entrenched bureaucracy, which struggled to adapt to change.
Critics argued that the university's bureaucracy made it difficult for students to get help when they needed it.