enormous bureaucracy
collocation in Englishmeaningsofenormousandbureaucracy
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enormous
adjective
uk/ɪˈnɔː.məs/us/əˈnɔːr.məs/
extremely ...
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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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We could be creating anenormousbureaucracyand a talking shop, which is my problem with the amendments.
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I acknowledge that anenormousbureaucracyis involved, given that a million medical examinations are held every year in relation to medical benefits.
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To start measuring these things would create anenormousbureaucracy.
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That would have resulted in disastrous remoteness of local government from the people and anenormousbureaucracyfor these large authorities.
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It is thrashing around trying to find a role for itself and creating anenormousbureaucracyas a result.
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Anenormousbureaucracyis required to keep track of the patients as they move about the country, change companies, and change doctors.
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In my view it is anenormousbureaucracywhich has a dubious role to play.
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If that was the break-point in funding, it might simplify and streamline the whole situation and avoid anenormousbureaucracyof consultation between departments.
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This is the sort ofenormousbureaucracywhich would be created.
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This seems to me to be a recipe forenormousbureaucracyand time-wasting.
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I am not talking about people who deliberately seek to evade, and, of course, they will be able to evade price control unless anenormousbureaucracyis established.
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We do not have anenormousbureaucracy.
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If all the proposals in the documents were carried out, anenormousbureaucracywould be needed to operate all the schemes, with consequent delay and expenditure.
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That must involve anenormousbureaucracy.
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For the director to consider each addition to this vast spider's web, cat's cradle, call it what you will, would create anenormousbureaucracyto little effect.
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Necessary to the construction of these megamachines is anenormousbureaucracyof humans which act as servo-units, working without ethical involvement.
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