circumlocution office

Noun

Meaning

circumlocution office (plural circumlocution offices)

Any organization that wastes time on bureaucracy to the detriment of its actual business.

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Examples

Whatever was required to be done, the Circumlocution Office was beforehand with all the public departments in the art of perceiving HOW NOT TO DO IT. Charles Dickens

Close letter words and terms

circumlocuitously circumlocute circumlocution circumlocutional circumlocutionally circumlocutionary