bureaucratic

a maze of bureaucratic divisions.

the straitjacket of bureaucratic paperwork.

a massive bureaucratic screw-up.

a maze of bureaucratic and legalistic complexities.

the bureaucratic inertia of the various tiers of government.

The asylum seekers had to contend with continued bureaucratic obstruction.

A canny bureaucratic infighter, Moorer made no pretense of academic subtlety.

a high-level meeting that triggered bitter bureaucratic debates.

She planned a way to circumvent all the bureaucratic red tape.

The government created a bureaucratic black hole that swallows up individual initiative.

In this company you have to go through complex bureaucratic procedures just to get a new pencil.

He doesn’t worry about bureaucratic procedures because he knows just where to oil the wheels.