large bureaucracy

collocation in English

meaningsoflargeandbureaucracy

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large
adjective
uk
/lɑːdʒ/us
/lɑːrdʒ/
big in size ...
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bureaucracy
noun[U or C]
uk
/bjʊəˈrɒk.rə.si/us
/bjʊˈrɑː.krə.si/
a system for controlling or managing a country, company, or organization that is operated by a large number of officials employed to follow ...
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(Definition oflargeandbureaucracyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The various public service pathologies described here will bring a wry smile to the face of anyone who has worked with alargebureaucracy.
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First, the sheer size of the investment in psychiatric hospitals required alargebureaucracyto support them.
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As a means of economic domination they were inefficient because their centralized political structure required alargebureaucracy, which tended to absorb profits.
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I believe that it would create alargebureaucracyand more evils than we have at present.
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There is to be created a large corporation, alargebureaucracy.
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The whole tendency of those authorities will be to set up alargebureaucracyin every county.
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We are not talking about alargebureaucracy.
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We therefore have an organisation in mind which is as slim as possible, and not alargebureaucracy.
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However, we object to the creation of an unnecessarilylargebureaucracy.
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The many new layers of responsibility for the mayor suggest that alargebureaucracywill have to be created to service them.
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Let it not create alargebureaucracywith executive functions.
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I agree with the rapporteur that yet another new committee carries with it an unnecessarilylargebureaucracy.
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If that is so, surely there are other ways round it than through the creation of alargebureaucracy.
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The objection to nationalisation, which has often been discussed over the last half-century, is a practical one—namely, that it would involve alargebureaucracy.
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Nor will they make patients suddenly feel part of a small organisation instead of alargebureaucracy.
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One reason for adopting this procedure is to avoid creating alargebureaucracy.
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That would result in an extremelylargebureaucracy, which would be quite wrong.
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We need leadership—not alargebureaucracy; we do not want a countrywide super-quango—to set national standards and guidelines, and to draw on the work of existing schemes.
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It is seeking to overcome some enormous problems, has to face serious financial problems, and has alargebureaucracywhich, as it freely admits, is not efficient.
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