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Bureaucracy score
6/10
Manager Mode
The verb is in there somewhere.
Where it came from
- Buzzwords
- 3+3.5
- Passive voice
- 0
- Hedging
- 0
- Actual meaning
- 10%+2.6
3 recognised phrases from the glossary.
Someone is doing the doing.
No escape hatches.
10% of the words carry content. The rest is scaffolding.
Counted from the text, not estimated. The same sentence always scores the same. A playful measure of style, not a judgement of anyone who writes this way.
What you gave us
60% of these words are jargon
The organization shall existing .
Highlighted phrases are in our glossary. Select one for the definition. The darker the shade, the more bureaucratic the term.
- Plain
- Some government-speak
- Maximum bureaucracy
Plain English
Written by a personBefore building something new, check whether another government team already has something you can use.
Terms in this
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Confidence
High confidence
This is a well-known formulation and the meaning is clear from the context provided.
Readability
0→34
About 34 points easier to read. Approximate measure only.
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