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bureaucratise

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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; < F bureaucratiser. See bureaucrat, -ize


bu⋅reauc⋅ra⋅ti⋅za⋅tion, noun
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