Usually means: Incompetence and pomposity in bureaucracy.
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  1. bumbledom: Merriam-Webster
  2. bumbledom: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bumbledom: Collins English Dictionary
  4. bumbledom: Wordnik
  5. bumbledom: Wiktionary
  6. Bumbledom: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  7. Bumbledom: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  8. bumbledom: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. bumbledom: A Word A Day
  2. bumbledom: Wordcraft Dictionary

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noun:  bureaucracy; mannerisms characteristic of pompous, arrogant or pretentious officials.

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