noun (n)

• nonelective government officials(noun.group)

  Synonym:
  bureaucratism
  

  source: wordnet30
• a government that is administered primarily by bureaus that are staffed with nonelective officials(noun.group)

  source: wordnet30
• any organization in which action is obstructed by insistence on unnecessary procedures and red tape(noun.group)

  source: wordnet30
• A system of carrying on the business of government by means of departments or bureaus, each under the control of a chief, in contradiction to a system in which the officers of government have an associated authority and responsibility; also, government conducted on this system.(noun)

  source: webster1913