bureaucratic
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əˈkræt adjective
of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a bureaucrat or a bureaucracy; arbitrary and routine.
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Bureaucratic
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| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
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| —adj | |
| of or relating to bureaucrats; characterized by bureaucracy | |
| bureaucratically | |
| —adv | |
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Word Origin & History
bureaucratic
1836, from Fr. bureaucratique; see bureaucracy. Bureaucratization is from 1916.
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Example sentences
Marketplace signals may prove to be more direct and powerful than bureaucratic ones.
With so much tied to semesters, innovators who adopt open-entry courses may be in for a bureaucratic migraine.
There has since been the bureaucratic equivalent of a gold rush.
And they combined all the bureaucratic dumbness of the reservation with this tribal culture that made a beaded item out of it.
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