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
Here and there, state lotteries have tried to bureaucratize luck�a dreary business and a contradiction in terms.
From Time Magazine Archive
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