Bureaucracy vs. Aristocracy

Bureaucracynoun

Government by bureaus or their administrators or officers.

Bureaucracynoun

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.

Bureaucracynoun

The body of officers and administrators, especially of a government.

Bureaucracynoun

Excessive red tape and routine in any administration, body or behaviour.

Bureaucracynoun

A system of carrying on the business of government by means of departments or bureaus, each under the control of a chief, in contradiction to a system in which the officers of government have an associated authority and responsibility; also, government conducted on this system.

Bureaucracynoun

Government officials, collectively; - used especially of nonelected government officials.

Bureaucracynoun

nonelective government officials

Bureaucracy

The term bureaucracy () may refer both to a body of non-elected governing officials (bureaucrats) and to an administrative policy-making group. Historically, a bureaucracy was a government administration managed by departments staffed with non-elected officials.

Aristocracynoun

The nobility, or the hereditary ruling class.

Aristocracynoun

Government by such a class, or a state with such a government

Aristocracynoun

A class of people considered (not normally universally) superior to others

Aristocracynoun

Government by the best citizens.

Aristocracynoun

A ruling body composed of the best citizens.

Aristocracynoun

A form a government, in which the supreme power is vested in the principal persons of a state, or in a privileged order; an oligarchy.

Aristocracynoun

The nobles or chief persons in a state; a privileged class or patrician order; (in a popular use) those who are regarded as superior to the rest of the community, as in rank, fortune, or intellect.

Aristocracynoun

a privileged class holding hereditary titles

Aristocracynoun

the most powerful members of a society

Aristocracynoun

the highest class in certain societies, typically comprising people of noble birth holding hereditary titles and offices

Aristocracynoun

a form of government in which power is held by the nobility.

Aristocracynoun

a state in which governing power is held by the nobility.

Aristocracynoun

a group regarded as privileged or superior in a particular sphere

Aristocracy

Aristocracy (Greek: ἀριστοκρατία aristokratía, from ἄριστος aristos 'excellent', and κράτος, kratos 'rule') is a form of government that places strength in the hands of a small, privileged ruling class, the aristocrats. The term derives from the Greek aristokratia, meaning 'rule of the best'.At the time of the word's origins in ancient Greece, the Greeks conceived it as rule by the best-qualified citizens—and often contrasted it favorably with monarchy, rule by an individual.