bureaucratic machinery

collocation in English

meaningsofbureaucraticandmachinery

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bureaucratic
adjective
uk
/ˌbjʊə.rəˈkræt.ɪk/us
/ˌbjʊr.əˈkræt̬.ɪk/
relating to a system of controlling or managing a country, company, or organization that is operated by a large number ...
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machinery
noun[U]
uk
/məˈʃiː.nər.i/us
/məˈʃiː.nɚ.i/
a group of large machines or the parts of a machine that make ...
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(Definition ofbureaucraticandmachineryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It was also able to createbureaucraticmachinery, whose members' fortunes became dependent on the development industry.
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This brought the need for greaterbureaucraticmachinerywhich would connect individual farmers and their communities with central government.
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Their contribution to a strengthening of thebureaucraticmachinerybefore the fall of the dynasty remains difficult to estimate, precisely because of the fall of the dynasty.
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It was accomplished simply by increasing taxation and enlarging the political andbureaucraticmachinery that had been established in the middle of the 19th century.
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Are we not just pilingbureaucraticmachineryuponbureaucraticmachinery?
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It would be a bit ofbureaucraticmachineryand would serve no useful purpose.
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Why, with all thebureaucraticmachinerywhich is available for assessing stocks, are the estimates of available food stocks not published and printed?
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That will be possible under this enormousbureaucraticmachinery.
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All too often the slowness of thebureaucraticmachineryof local government forces parents to find suitable educational provision in the private sector.
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That is to set up a newbureaucraticmachinery.
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If we erect a massive edifice ofbureaucraticmachinery, we shall not get anywhere, because people will become disillusioned with the whole thing.
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Whatever the measure that emerges, it must operate with the minimum ofbureaucraticmachinery.
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In other words, you collect the money with one hand and redistribute it with the other, through two bodies, an expensivebureaucraticmachinery.
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This would involve such a vastbureaucraticmachinerythat it would not be reasonable.
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I said that the welfare state was built by expanding 19th century political andbureaucraticmachinery.
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This could be done with very littlebureaucraticmachinery.
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Has not the time come to review the wholebureaucraticmachineryof some of these training boards?
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I do not think that the creation of a largebureaucraticmachineryis justified in those circumstances.
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That is a spurious safeguard and would simply be an addition to thebureaucraticmachineryof written records and reports of authorisation.
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There will be an elaboratebureaucraticmachineryof enforcement or there will be no enforcement at all.
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