1) Bureaucracy 2) Government officials 3) Officialdom 1) Bureaucracy 
bureaucratic, bureaucratism 1. Government by officials collectively. 2. Rule by `desks” or government officials who 'govern the desks'. The actual work of government is too unglamorous for the people who govern us to do. Important elected officeholders and high appointed officials create bureaucratic departments to perform the humdrum tasks of n...