Definition of "bureaucracies" []

• Plural form of bureaucracy. (noun)

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• "Common sense is becoming an ever decreasing commodity in bureaucracies of all kinds."
• "Corruption can hinder or even prevent the development of a modern society characterized by long complex chains of decisions based on standard procedure (eg. in bureaucracies)."
• "It seems clear to me that many of the most trying people we deal with in bureaucracies, particularly government bureaucracies, took their jobs in order to be difficult to people, to exercise petty power over others, or to be nasty with minimal risks of retaliation."