Which one of the following descriptions gives a definition of bureaucracy?

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A career based appointed administrative service of fixed status and tenure with salary limited to rank and a known rank order of advancement

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A set of government officials, possessed of certain traits of excessive formality, the use of verbiage and jargon as the basis of communication, inflexibility of procedure and insistence on the powers of their office

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A particular pattern of administrative behaviour, associated with certain types of social organization and identificable by reference to a constellation of objective criteria

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The activity concerned with the implementation of policies by the direction or management of efforts of individuals and groups towards specific goals

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