bureaucratic
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6.7
- adjective
- /ˌbjʊəroʊˈkrætɪk/
- India was also fortunate in that it had the bureaucratic and institutional capacities to take on those challenges.
- bureaucratic structure
- bureaucratic institution
- bureaucratic organization
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Watch on YouTubeBut these are non elected, unaccountable, bureaucratic woke bodies, Megan.
- But these are non elected, unaccountable, bureaucratic woke bodies, Megan.
- I'm not really made for a bureaucratic existence.
- But most of the work was maintenance, bureaucratic work and working with trainees like me.
- And will those bureaucratic institutions be AI?
- So it's, it's some kind of bureaucratic language for, you know, there's a process to this.
- And he said, no, this is this is still too bureaucratic for me.
- It is so bureaucratic in government.
- Too often it feels like US versus an impersonal bureaucratic machine.
- So if you take away hierarchy, if you take away bureaucratic kind of structure, chaos is unleashed.
- Let's just have a bureaucratic process to settle disputes that can't be resolved.
- And I, I asked Jeff Bezos, once you know, how do you stop Amazon becoming big and bureaucratic and anti novelty?
- The middle path is that we and then it's and it's, it's in a way, it's boring because it's bureaucratic, it's not heroic.
- They're sort of setting the table for Trump to come back and have way but much fewer bureaucratic impediments, right?
- Diocletian was not a great general, but he was a brilliant manager and he was a brilliant bureaucratic organizer.
Examples
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In addition, community colleges have been portrayed as bureaucratic organizations in which administrators play a dominant role.
Academic text (2008) -
You know, it's like bureaucratic red tape.
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You know how you will progress in this bureaucratic hierarchy.
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Mostly it's the bureaucratic jungle.
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No, it has to do with whether you're going to follow the bureaucratic process.
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It is so bureaucratic in government.
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Innovative education and decision-making is limited by the bureaucratic state throughout the modern world.
Academic text (1990) -
There are, however, solutions to the bureaucratic nightmare that confronts many social workers.
Academic text (2011) -
The society plans to avoid bureaucratic rigidity by adopting a decentralized structure.
Academic text (1999) -
The new policies were criticized for their bureaucratic nature, which delayed important decisions.
Synonyms
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3.6
Relating to public bodies that run a country or city
Antonyms
Compounds
- Formal
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An official process with many slow, pointless steps that delays decisions
How Bureaucratic
Surface Forms
Morphology
bureaucratic = bureaucrat (transparent) = bureaucrat + ic
The adjective is directly formed from the noun 'bureaucrat' with the adjective-forming suffix '-ic', so the meaning 'relating to bureaucracy or officials' is clear.
Etymology
Bureaucratic starts with bureau, a word for 'desk' or 'office', and it shares a root with democracy, which means 'power' or 'rule'. So bureaucratic originally suggested 'rule by offices' and today describes a system run by officials and many rules, often slow and full of red tape.