Antedating of "Bureaucracy"

[Fred Shapiro]

bureaucracy (OED 1837)

1826 _Times_ 22 Dec. 2  We have then to defend the monastic Government ...
against the administrative maxims of Ministerial bureaucracy.

Fred Shapiro


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