bureaucratic
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- antibureaucratic adjective
- bureaucratically adverb
- nonbureaucratic adjective
- nonbureaucratically adverb
- semibureaucratic adjective
- semibureaucratically adverb
- unbureaucratic adjective
- unbureaucratically adverb
Etymology
Origin of bureaucratic
From the French word bureaucratique, dating back to 1830–40. See bureaucrat, -ic
Example Sentences
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But now they performed them under an additional bureaucratic layer, DHS departmental management, which added no value.
From Salon
Europe’s regulatory machine is slow and bureaucratic, but for long-term decisions, slow and predictable is preferable to fast and erratic.
None of the existing alternatives are as flexible, and many require complex bureaucratic processes to justify new tariffs.
She is now trying to get Russian citizenship to be able to travel more freely, but is caught in a vicious bureaucratic cycle.
From Barron's
"When transparency leads the process, evil can no longer hide behind process failures or bureaucratic division."
From BBC
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