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bureaucracy has 1 distinct synonym spread across 1 of its 3 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
nonelective government officials
a government that is administered primarily by bureaus that are staffed with nonelective officials
any organization in which action is obstructed by insistence on unnecessary procedures and red tape
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for bureaucracy come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.