bureaucracy

n. 1. where lots of bodies sit and act very busy, but where little actual work gets done, because bodies, left to their own devices, are not interested in work. See activity, Law of Bureaucracy, The. 2. a giant mechanism operated by pygmies. [Honore de Balzac]





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