1. 官僚制度
A bureaucracy is an administrative system operated by a large number of officials.

2. 官僚作风；官僚主义
Bureaucracy refers to all the rules and procedures followed by government departments and similar organizations, especially when you think that these are complicated and cause long delays.

1. any organization in which action is obstructed by insistence on unnecessary procedures and red tape

2. a government that is administered primarily by bureaus that are staffed with nonelective officials

3. nonelective government officials

Synonym: bureaucratism