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bureaucratise

[byoo-rok-ruh-tahyz]

bu·reauc·ra·tize

[byoo-rok-ruh-tahyz]
verb (used with object), -tized, -tiz·ing.
1.
to divide an administrative agency or office into bureaus.
2.
to increase the number of government or business bureaus.
3.
to cause to become bureaucratic or to resemble a bureaucracy: to bureaucratize a city's social services.
Also, especially British, bu·reauc·ra·tise.


Origin:
1890–95; < French bureaucratiser. See bureaucrat, -ize

bu·reauc·ra·ti·za·tion, noun
de·bu·reauc·ra·tize, verb (used with object), -tized, -tiz·ing.
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bureaucratize or bureaucratise (bjʊəˈrɒkrəˌtaɪz)
 
vb
(tr) to administer by or transform into a bureaucracy
 
bureaucratise or bureaucratise
 
vb
 
bureaucrati'zation or bureaucratise
 
n
 
bureaucrati'sation or bureaucratise
 
n

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