bureaucracies
USbyuu-RAH-kruh-seez/bjʊˈɹɑ.kɹə.siz/UKbyuu-ROK-ruh-seez/bjʊəˈɹɒk.ɹə.siz/AUSbyuu-RAWK-ruh-seez/bjʊəˈɹɔk.ɹə siz/
- 1Plural of bureaucracy. Use this form when you mean more than one.
Big companies and governments both build large bureaucracies.
Slow bureaucracies can take weeks to answer a simple question.
Note
bureaucracies is a form of bureaucracy
bureaucracy, noun: Too many rules and slow steps that make simple things hard to get done. Full entry
- Forms
- bureaucracybureaucracies plural
- Spelling
- bureaucracy → bureaucracies: change y to i, add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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