bureaucratize
Americanverb (used with object)
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to divide an administrative agency or office into bureaus.
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to increase the number of government or business bureaus.
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to cause to become bureaucratic or to resemble a bureaucracy.
to bureaucratize a city's social services.
verb
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Etymology
Origin of bureaucratize
From the French word bureaucratiser, dating back to 1890–95. See bureaucrat, -ize
Example Sentences
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“It just seems dangerous to overly bureaucratize the rollout of an updated vaccine,” said Jeremy Kamil, a virologist at Louisiana State University Health Shreveport.
From New York Times ● Jul. 4, 2022
The upstart unions of the Gilded Age could have grown into something very different from today’s bureaucratized behemoths.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 4, 2022
It situates the voice and perspective of farmworkers out front, while its chapters offer a view into the daily life of the bracero's bureaucratized lives, smothering counterarguments in a barrage of detailed, first-person stories.
From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2021
Thanks to a strong pair of lead performances and a simple yet effective black-box set, Kafka’s bureaucratized dystopia shines through with a fresh lacquer of bleak humor.
From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2021
As historians like David Tyack and Kate Rousmaniere have shown, Progressive reformers in the early 20th century bureaucratized public education, requiring “merit-based” certification for teachers and principals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2018
With some input from Congress, today’s military now runs under a highly organized, bureaucratized system of orders, with elaborate coordination and approval requirements for even the smallest deployments of troops.
From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2017
Meanwhile, Maria serves as the bland, bureaucratizing face of state power, willfully blind in her “self-contained, self-satisfied little world.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2023
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