bureaucracy

In a sentence

Six example sentences with bureaucracy, each labelled with its topic.

• Ministers change every election, but the bureaucracy stays, and much of the department's memory sits with people nobody voted for.

  Politics

• Imperial China staffed its bureaucracy through written examinations, and a farmer's son could in principle reach the highest offices.

  History

• Exporters complain less about the tariff than about the bureaucracy, which requires four signatures for a single container.

  Business

• Economists found that a competent bureaucracy matters more to growth than which party wins, since permits flow through the same offices.

  Economics

• The statute empowers the bureaucracy to write detailed rules, so much of the law is decided by officials rather than legislators.

  Law

• Weber argued that bureaucracy, with its files and ranked officials, was the most rational way a modern state could govern.

  Philosophy

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More GMAT words

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• heresy
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