bureaucracy

名词 n.
/bjʊəˈɹɒk.ɹə.si/    /bjʊˈɹɑ.kɹə.si/|/bjɚˈɹɑ.kɹə.si/|/bjʊəˈɹɔk.ɹə si/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Government by bureaus or their administrators or officers. countable,uncountable
    — However, when Britain left the European Union, ferries started to ply a direct sea link from Ireland, to save hauliers from custom's bureaucracy of driving via Britain.
  2. A system of administration based upon organisation into bureaus, division of labour, a hierarchy of authority, etc., designed to dispose of a large body of work in a routine manner. countable,uncountable
    — At that time the administration replaced the system of patronage in the civil service with a bureaucracy.
  3. The body of officers and administrators, especially of a government. countable,uncountable
    — The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy. (apocryphal quip)
  4. Excessive red tape and routine in any administration, body or behaviour. countable,derogatory,uncountable
    — The head of the civil service promised to clamp down on bureaucracy.

词形变化

bureaucracies plural bureaucratie alternative bureau-ocracy alternative,dated burocracy alternative,US

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *péh₂wr̥
Proto-Hellenic *pāwər
Ancient Greek πῦρ (pûr)
Proto-Indo-European *-rós
Proto-Hellenic *-rós
Ancient Greek -ρός (-rós)
Ancient Greek πῠρρός (pŭrrhós)bor.
Latin burrus
Latin burra
Old French *bure
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Indo-European *-elós
Proto-Italic *-elos
Latin -lus
Latin -ellus
Old French -el
Old French burel
French bureau
Proto-Indo-European *kret-
Ancient Greek κρᾰ́τος (krắtos)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
Ancient Greek -κρᾰτῐ́ᾱ (-krătĭ́ā)lbor.
French -cratie
French bureaucratie
English bureaucracy
From bureau + -cracy, from French bureaucratie, coined by Jean Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay from bureau (“office”) + -cratie (“rule of”).
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