Usually means: Bureaucracy causing delay in decisions.
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  1. circumlocution office: Wordnik
  2. circumlocution office: Wiktionary
  3. Circumlocution office: Dictionary.com
  4. Circumlocution Office: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. Circumlocution Office: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  6. circumlocution office: FreeDictionary.org
  7. Circumlocution office: TheFreeDictionary.com
  8. Circumlocution Office: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Circumlocution Office)

noun:  Any organization that wastes time on bureaucracy to the detriment of its actual business.
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of circumlocution office [Any organization that wastes time on bureaucracy to the detriment of its actual business.]

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