Bureaucratitis

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Excessive bureaucracy; red tape. uncountable

    "I don't like the ergophilia, bureaucratitis, technomania and war fever that I'm surrounded by, yet these things don't actually get labelled as sicknesses."

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"I don't like the ergophilia, bureaucratitis, technomania and war fever that I'm surrounded by, yet these things don't actually get labelled as sicknesses."

Etymology

From bureaucrat + -itis.

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red tape

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