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Bureaucracy

/bjʊˈrɑkrəsi/
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(noun) Government by bureaus or their administrators or officers.

The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of an expanding bureaucracy.
The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.
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The company's ____ made it very slow to get anything approved today.

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