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bureaucratic inertia

bureaucratic inertia noun: the tendency of bureaucratic organizations to perpetuate their established procedures, even if they are counterproductive or diametrically opposed to their set goals.

Noun

bureaucratic inertia (countable and uncountable, plural bureaucratic inertias)

  1. The tendency of bureaucratic organizations to perpetuate their established procedures, even if they are counterproductive or diametrically opposed to their set goals.

Forms of bureaucratic inertia

pluralbureaucratic inertias

Questions about bureaucratic inertia

What does bureaucratic inertia mean?
Bureaucratic inertia means the tendency of bureaucratic organizations to perpetuate their established procedures, even if they are counterproductive or diametrically opposed to their set goals.
What part of speech is bureaucratic inertia?
Bureaucratic inertia is a noun.
What is the plural of bureaucratic inertia?
The plural of bureaucratic inertia is bureaucratic inertias.

Words near bureaucratic inertia in the dictionary

  1. bureaucratese
  2. bureaucratess
  3. bureaucratesses
  4. bureaucratic
  5. bureaucratic centralism
  6. bureaucratic inertia
  7. bureaucratic inertias
  8. bureaucratical
  9. bureaucratically
  10. bureaucratie
  11. bureaucraties

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