Bureaucracy Definition

bureaucracy
noun
  1. nonelective government officials
  2. a government that is administered primarily by bureaus that are staffed with nonelective officials
  3. any organization in which action is obstructed by insistence on unnecessary procedures and red tape

"Bureaucracy" in song lyrics

See how bureaucracy is used in real songs:

  • "What is the State? The State is this organized bureaucracy"
    Dead Prez — Police State
  • "Stoppin your flow like bureaucracy"
    Lone Catalysts f/ Talib Kweli, Rubix — Due Process
  • "acquisitive model of bureaucracy"
    AOL — AOL

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