Bureaucratic
[,bjɔːrə'krætɪk;,bjʊərə'krætɪk] or [,bjʊrə'krætɪk]
Definition
(adj.) of or relating to or resembling a bureaucrat or bureaucracy; 'his bureaucratic behavior annoyed his colleagues'; 'a bureaucratic nightmare' .
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Definition
(a.) Alt. of Bureaucratical
Checker: Rupert
Examples
- Without any doubt socialism has within it the germs of that great bureaucratic tyranny which Chesterton and Belloc have named the Servile State. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Then by the sloth of a bureaucratic fascist. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- At its best it had a bureaucratic administration which kept the peace of the world for a time and failed altogether to secure it. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It became a bureaucratic body serving the local kings and rulers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Checker: Rupert