bureaucratically
- adverb
- /bjʊəˈrɒkrəˌtɪkli/
- Formal
- To open a new business, she had to navigate through the bureaucratically mandated application process.
- bureaucratically organized
- bureaucratically administered
- bureaucratically driven
And I bureaucratically, they didn't care.
- And I bureaucratically, they didn't care.
Examples
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Prawat (1991) argues that a bureaucratically organized school environment denies teachers autonomy and control in the workplace and over the profession itself.
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And it culminates in a faith that a bureaucratically organized state is preferable to any state ruled or dominated by a particular group or class.
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After all, it involves people going about in the bureaucratically administered sector asking questions.
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So bureaucratically, people are filing Freedom of Information Act requests to get their hands on curriculum.
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Just getting technologies and financing to many parties, regardless of how attractive it may seem, can be bureaucratically complicated, expensive, and risky.
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While lacking direct ownership of capital, senior executives run sizable organizations controlling large, bureaucratically organized labor forces.
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In the State Department, IRF policy is functionally and bureaucratically quarantined.
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Efforts to create exemption programs for the poorest Ghanaians are either bureaucratically complex or underfunded by the government.
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A popular slogan affirms that if we think less bureaucratically and more commercially in communal enterprises, they will work just as well as private enterprises.
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Furthermore, the bilateral commissions are often bureaucratically quite distant from the process of cultivating and screening candidates.
Academic text (1993)
Synonyms
In a way managers use to run a company or government
Following a set of steps or rules to do something
Antonyms
How Bureaucratic
Surface Forms
Morphology
bureaucratically = bureaucratic (transparent) = bureaucratic + ally
Formed by adding the adverbial suffix '-ally' to the adjective 'bureaucratic', so the meaning 'in a bureaucratic manner' is directly derived.
Etymology
Bureaucratically comes from bureau meaning 'desk' or 'office' and the ending -cracy, as in democracy, meaning 'rule'. So to act bureaucratically is to follow office rules and lots of paperwork, like decisions made at desks in a slow, strict way.