"bureaucratics"

[Jonathan Lighter]

OED lacks an entry for this, but that didn't stop a Fox News commentator from using it this morning.  He explained that "Even in wars that proved successful, like World War II, there was [governmental] in-fighting, cat-fighting, bureaucratics, and so on."

  Raw Googlits: over 4,000, with 179 in books.

  JL


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