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bureaurocratitis

The inflexible mind set which permeates organizations that we are dependant upon to approve something before we can proceed with our lives. A.K.A. gatekeepers disease.
I hope you're not too frustrated on this St Francis Yacht Club thing Judy. It seems that some of these big Prestigious Yacht Clubs are beset with bureaurocratitis.
by Holly Goodhead March 9, 2014
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bureaurat

A gov't employee, who is not doing the public a service.
Big Brother is full of bureaurats and civil leaches.
by GewehrWolf April 9, 2007
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Bureautocracy

A bureaucracy that functions as though the individual bureaus and bureaucrats are making authoritative decisions independently of all the other bureaus and bureaucrats.

Generally used among college students to describe the situation of having to resolve a problem (billing, financial aid, holds, transfers of credits, etc) independently at each level of administration rather than just once at the originating department.
Johnny paid his library fines and the librarian removed the registration-hold from his account, but because of the bureautocracy he had to show the receipt to registration, accounts receivable, and the bursar before he could actually register for classes.
by Johnny Lexiconic November 6, 2008
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Bureauromantic

(pronounced bee-ur-ow-man-tic)

a person who tries to put rules on what is romantically/sexually acceptable, usually complicating these things far more than needed, let alone wanted realistically by any sane person.
She seemed like a really nice girl at first, but she kept asking me if I was to call her first or she was to call me first. She wouldn't even give me her number until I gave her mine because she said that "that's the way it works, isn't it?". Yugh, I hate bureauromantic people!
by S@Tan December 25, 2009
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bureauographer

Melvin is a bureauographer.
by Will.A August 10, 2007
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bureauitch

Bureau / office bitch. Unpolite and unhelpfull bitch in office or bureau,
That bureauitch just rejected all my applications, because of one missing stamp.
by winyl July 13, 2022
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Bureaustocracy

Of and or relating to rule by un-elected bureaucrats. Generally typified by a bureaucracy that is unregulated and or poorly overseen by a nations ruling class.

See also "Deep State."
The entrenched bureaustocracy resisted the will of the people by shifting the meanings of words to expand and contract the effect of the laws.

The newly elected government was unable to move new laws forward due to the ability of the bureaustocracy to resist their moves to enact change.
by Battle Specter September 22, 2024
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