bureaucratize

[ byoo-rok-ruh-tahyz ]

verb (used with object)

, bu·reauc·ra·tized, bu·reauc·ra·tiz·ing.

1. to divide an administrative agency or office into bureaus.
2. to increase the number of government or business bureaus.
3. to cause to become bureaucratic or to resemble a bureaucracy:

   to bureaucratize a city's social services.

bureaucratize

/ bjʊəˈrɒkrəˌtaɪz /

verb

1. tr to administer by or transform into a bureaucracy

Derived Forms

• buˌreaucratiˈzation, noun

Other Words From

• bu·reaucra·ti·zation noun
• debu·reaucra·tize verb (used with object) debureaucratized debureaucratizing

Word History and Origins

Origin of bureaucratize¹

From the French word bureaucratiser, dating back to 1890–95. See bureaucrat, -ize

Example Sentences

So they tried to manage and bureaucratize it, but the longer it persisted, the more it failed, and the more it fostered the undercurrents that propped it up in the first place.

From Vox