A Bureaucracy

1. Government by bureaus or their administrators or officers.
2. (business, organizational theory) A system of administration based upon organisation into bureaus, division of labour, a hierarchy of authority, etc., designed to dispose of a large body of work in a routine manner.
3. The body of officers and administrators, especially of a government.
4. (chiefly derogatory) Excessive red tape and routine in any administration, body or behaviour.