| stoppage(weakness, impairment, disablement) | |
| City Hall(noun, rules) | |
| academism(regulation, procedure, service, custom, convention) | |
| action(noun, activity, movement, plan, progress) | |
| administration(noun, organization, action, charge, plan) | |
| advance(noun, activity, action, movement, progress) | |
| afterthought | |
| approach(form, action, plan, rule, way) | |
| arrangement(form, action, plan, rule, design) | |
| authority(noun, rules) | |
| beadledom | |
| beat | |
| beaten path | |
| bind | |
| blockade | |
| book(form, plan, rule, design, process) | |
| bother | |
| bumbledom | |
| bureaucratic | |
| bureaucratic delay |
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