bureaucratize

American  

[byoo-rok-ruh-tahyz] / byʊˈrɒk rəˌtaɪz /

especially British, bureaucratise

verb (used with object)

bureaucratized, bureaucratizing

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.

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bureaucratize British  

/ bjʊəˈrɒkrəˌtaɪz /

verb

1. (tr) to administer by or transform into a bureaucracy

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Other Word Forms

• bureaucratization noun
• debureaucratize verb (used with object)

Etymology

Origin of bureaucratize

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

Example Sentences

“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

Similarly, the disclosure requirements under Landrum-Griffin will further bureaucratize the labor movement and push the business of unions away from organizing worker-led collective action and towards doing all they can simply to stay on the right side of the law.

From The Guardian

Bureaucratize an idea, though, and what do you get?

From The Wall Street Journal

Department of Justice’s Office of Civil Rights have been trying to bureaucratize that “guidance” in ways that strengthen only critics of political correctness, including candidates like Trump who are campaigning against it.

From Salon

"You can tell the military is taking something seriously when they bureaucratize it," he said.

From Scientific American