bureaucratic
[byoo r-uh-krat-ik]
- of, relating to, or characteristic of a bureaucrat or a bureaucracy; arbitrary and routine.
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Origin of bureaucratic
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Contemporary Examples
The path may be there, but current travelers to Sudan face a bureaucratic nightmare of permits and road blocks.
Bureaucratic inertia is, by long tradition, the most efficient dispatcher of scandals.
This entire ordeal reeks of bureaucratic overreach being bandied about in the name of “let-us-save-the-children” politics.
It struck me as language borrowed from some bureaucratic circular.
Capitalist, however corrupt; bureaucratic, however inefficient; egalitarian, however much we struggle for status and recognition.
Historical Examples
For the bureaucratic order, whatever it was, had to be obeyed.
Vittoria, CompleteGeorge Meredith
Why, do you consider its better as it is with us, lawlessness and bureaucratic tyranny?
SmokeTurgenev Ivan Sergeevich
In bureaucratic France the colonies since 1854 have been associated with the navy.
Persecutions were inaugurated by the Bureaucratic Government.
Chitta RanjanSukumar Ranjan Das
No step of this kind is easily arranged in bureaucratic France.
The Book of SusanLee Wilson Dodd
bureaucratic
- of or relating to bureaucrats; characterized by bureaucracy
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Word Origin and History for bureaucratic
adj.
1836, from French bureaucratique (19c.); see bureaucracy. Related: Bureaucratically. Bureaucratization is from 1916.
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