bureaucratize

especially British, bu·reauc·ra·tise

[byoo-rok-ruh-tahyz]

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.

bureaucratize

/ bjʊəˈrɒkrəˌtaɪz /

verb

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

Other Word Forms

• bureaucratization noun
• debureaucratize verb (used with object)

Word History and Origins

Origin of bureaucratize¹

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 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

Unless the content and app industries open their eyes and join with the infrastructure providers in lawsuits to stop the FCC campaign to bureaucratize the Internet, they’ll ensure their own vulnerability to FCC exploits.

From Forbes