federal bureaucracy

collocation in English

meaningsoffederalandbureaucracy

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federal
adjective
uk
/ˈfed.ər.əl/
us
/ˈfed.ɚ.əl/
relating to the central government, and not to the government of a region, of some countries such as ...
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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 offederalandbureaucracyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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These intellectual ancestors came to dominate the professions, finance, education, the foundations, and later thefederalbureaucracyand judiciary.
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Just as impressively, thefederalbureaucracyrationalized organizationally to keep pace with the dramatically rising expectations for its per formance.
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Yet thefederalbureaucracyitself did not expand to directly administer the new 12.
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With 16,000 staff (and assets of over 6 million) it accounted for 80% of the newfederalbureaucracy.
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He had previously endorsed an activist role for government, but after 1924 his rhetoric increasingly attacked thefederalbureaucracyand big government.
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That figure climbed to over 120,000 staff (around 50% of thefederalbureaucracy) by the late sixties.
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The most ominous form was government-sponsored health insurance, with its threat of intrusive federal bureaucracies.
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Reece often referred to the pink puppets in control of thefederalbureaucracy.
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In addition, urban centres were burgeoning with a corresponding growth of state and federal bureaucracies.
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They do not come from a concern with policy, or with a desire to democratize federal bureaucracies and regulations.
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