bureaucratize
[ byoo-rok-ruh-tahyz ]
verb (used with object),bu·reauc·ra·tized, bu·reauc·ra·tiz·ing.
to divide an administrative agency or office into bureaus.
to increase the number of government or business bureaus.
to cause to become bureaucratic or to resemble a bureaucracy: to bureaucratize a city's social services.
Origin of bureaucratize
1- Also especially British, bu·reauc·ra·tise .
Other words from bureaucratize
- bu·reauc·ra·ti·za·tion, noun
- de·bu·reauc·ra·tize, verb (used with object), de·bu·reauc·ra·tized, de·bu·reauc·ra·tiz·ing.
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How to use bureaucratize in a sentence
Last week, I defended bad merit pay schemes as perhaps the best that hyper-bureaucratized government school systems could do.
British Dictionary definitions for bureaucratize
bureaucratize
bureaucratise
/ (bjʊəˈrɒkrəˌtaɪz) /
verb
(tr) to administer by or transform into a bureaucracy
Derived forms of bureaucratize
- bureaucratization or bureaucratisation, noun
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