| 单词 | bureaucracy |
| 释义 | bureaucracy (bjʊrɒkrəsi ) Word forms: bureaucracies 1. countable noun [usually plural] A bureaucracy is an administrative system operated by a large number of officials. State bureaucracies can tend to stifle enterprise and initiative. Synonyms: government, officials, authorities, administration 2. uncountable noun Bureaucracy refers to all the rules and procedures followed by government departments and similar organizations, especially when you think that these are complicated and cause long delays. [disapproval] People usually complain about having to deal with too much bureaucracy. Synonyms: red tape, regulations, paperwork, officialdom Collocations: complex bureaucracy Back then, the families were going through the lengthy initial preparation and complex bureaucracy of the process. Times, Sunday Times Many who would be eligible for help are unable to negotiate the complex bureaucracy, and one of the organisations that disperses funds has been mired in corruption. Times, Sunday Times The fish farm industry was just taking off, and the estate's ability to grant licences without too much complex bureaucracy allowed it to expand rapidly. Times, Sunday Times However, the scheme's rigid rules and complex bureaucracy have been blamed for a huge drop in numbers. Times, Sunday Times As a manager of complex bureaucracies, he has impressed officials. Times, Sunday Times Governments, by definition, create bureaucracy. Christianity Today Perhaps one way of doing this might be to remove the formal - and informal - rewards for creating bureaucracy. Times, Sunday Times As they grow and flourish, adding new resources and ways to manage them, they become more complex: they create bureaucracies and legal and financial systems to harness development. Times, Sunday Times Newly created bureaucracy required significant financial investments, which the government was lacking. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It sounds like a recipe for a large, cumbersome bureaucracy. Times, Sunday Times Its success, however, will hinge on ministers working more closely with business, addressing its concerns about labour shortages and cumbersome bureaucracy. Times,Sunday Times Cumbersome bureaucracy creates opportunities for officials to extort facilitation payments from businesses if they wish to speed things up. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He said it would cut bureaucracy and stop state meddling in people's lives. The Sun But there won't be lots of people working in it because we're going to cut bureaucracy. Times, Sunday Times Also, many directives contain sunset clauses, so that some regulations lapse while others may be updated in ways that cut bureaucracy. Times, Sunday Times As a minister of state in 1980 he launched a programme to cut bureaucracy and waste. Times,Sunday Times It intends to cut bureaucracy, restore professional discretion, reduce targets that are not directly concerned with cutting crime, and make local forces accountable to local people through elected commisioners. Times, Sunday Times Those creators of excessive bureaucracy within the service invariably sincerely believe that they are helping, not hindering us. Times, Sunday Times Excessive bureaucracy helped to push caring out of the wards. Times, Sunday Times General practice has become an unpopular branch of medicine due to the high workload, increasing patient demand, excessive bureaucracy and inadequate resources. Times, Sunday Times Many say excessive bureaucracy will reduce time spent with patients and encourage 'defensive medicine'. Times, Sunday Times A combination of excessive bureaucracy and fear of litigation means that, during an emergency, many professionals see the public merely as a problem to be managed. Times, Sunday Times Unloved as it may be, the federal bureaucracy performs some important functions. Times, Sunday Times And the federal bureaucracy will make the cuts as painful to the public and as pain-free for itself as possible so as to increase its leverage. Times, Sunday Times It s called federal bureaucracy. Chicago Sun-Times With 16,000 staff (and assets of over 6 million) it accounted for 80% of the new federal bureaucracy. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He had previously endorsed an activist role for government, but after 1924 his rhetoric increasingly attacked the federal bureaucracy and big government. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 We pay enough for government bureaucracy already. The Sun (2013) They felt government bureaucracy had vanquished the muses. A TALE OF FOUR HOUSES: Opera at Covent Garden, La Scala, Vienna and the Met since 1945 (2003) The voters who are most bitter about government bureaucracy vote for more government programs. MANAGEMENT: task, responsibilities, practices (1974) As anyone who has worked in a government bureaucracy could have foretold, it was completely out of the question. Times, Sunday Times (2009) Will it pay higher taxes for better infrastructure or will it object to financing further the country's inefficient bureaucracy? Times, Sunday Times I don't believe this was malice: it was inefficient bureaucracy and a filing system struggling to cope with the mass of modern-day email communications. Times, Sunday Times Now they are demand-ing a greater say in government to protect their investments and to clean up a corrupt and inefficient bureaucracy. Times, Sunday Times Gaining a good state-assigned placement meant navigating a highly inefficient bureaucracy that gave power to officials who had little expertise in their area of jurisdiction. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Other points it mentioned were stagnant policymaking and an inefficient bureaucracy. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 She began a battle with the outdated military bureaucracy. Times, Sunday Times They wrestle with pointless military bureaucracy, while away hours of boredom, and often wonder, with a vague and hilarious existential anguish, what exactly they are doing there. Times, Sunday Times The idea eventually rose through the military bureaucracy and gained supporters. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It applied to independent leaders, eschewing identification with elaborate military bureaucracy associated with such ranks as general. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 His fears and the constraints of military bureaucracy prevent him from helping his friend. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The changes were supposed to reduce bureaucracy but the opposite has happened. Times, Sunday Times (2016) It also promises to reduce bureaucracy further. Times, Sunday Times (2012) Any government attempt to save money and reduce bureaucracy deserves applause. Times, Sunday Times (2006) The orchestra had been freed from years of petty censorship and state bureaucracy. Times, Sunday Times Wealth from the diamond trade stimulated a further process of state centralization, and revenues paid for the state bureaucracy, infrastructure and education. The Times Literary Supplement He now appears to be turning his attention to crushing the last of the opposition within the state bureaucracy. Times, Sunday Times The state bureaucracy wrested control from its architect and the architect's intentions for the interiors of the building were never realised. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It would also potentially require a large and expensive state bureaucracy to administer. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It provides a comprehensive survey of the crucial but complex field of unnecessary bureaucracy. Times,Sunday Times Both parties talk about improving discipline and freeing schools from unnecessary bureaucracy, though neither has said how they are going to deliver these goals. Times, Sunday Times He was an engaging personality who, while being formidable in maintaining the traditions of his appointment, abhorred pomposity and unnecessary bureaucracy. Times, Sunday Times Together we are complicit in eating up so much of the new investment destined for service improvement in creating new and unnecessary bureaucracy. Times, Sunday Times The scheme has broken all previous records of unnecessary bureaucracy, by introducing far more demanding compliance than similar schemes in the gas, oil and solid fuel industries. Times, Sunday Times Some bemoan its vast bureaucracy, another says there are more managers than leaders. Times, Sunday Times One issue was the vast bureaucracy that was involved in administering wage payments. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He inherited a vast bureaucracy created by his uncle whose legacy of reform and welfare was to last throughout the next two centuries. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 To accomplish these many tasks, he was aided by a vast bureaucracy. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Civil servants instinctively don't get it, they are risk-averse people who choose to work in vast bureaucracies with secure pensions. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 官僚 Japanese: 官僚主義 |
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