Definition of bureaucratic
: of, relating to, or having the characteristics of a bureaucracy or a bureaucrat bureaucratic government a bureaucratic organization bureaucratic procedures
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During his two years at DCFS, Sheldon was adroit at tapping federal funds and brought tens of millions of new dollars into Illinois by clearing away bureaucratic tangles.
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Grant and Morrell had argued that removing the bureaucratic hurdles of the civil service system and giving employees more flexibility in their retirement benefits would help the S&WB attract younger, specialized talent.
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But the 18-page report still points to bureaucratic lapses that could put children in danger.
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Can ethics and morals be tested, nudged, or molded by force of law or bureaucratic incentives?
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The leaders of Alliance-College Ready Public Schools, the city’s largest charter school network, have accused the district of making demands as part of the oversight process that amount to bureaucratic harassment.
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As universities layered on more and more bureaucracy, students came to believe that every campus problem had a bureaucratic solution.
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Today many Americans approach the notion of professional, nonpartisan expertise with suspicion, seeing it as mere cover for elite interests, bureaucratic self-preservation or partisan agendas.
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Anyone could see how, over time, IBM got bloated and bureaucratic and lost its edge as smart, innovative competitors created technology that left its standard in the dust.
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Origin and Etymology of bureaucratic
borrowed from French bureaucratique, from bureaucrate bureaucrat or bureaucratie bureaucracy + -ique 1-ic
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playDefinition of bureaucratic for English Language Learners
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: using or connected with many complicated rules and ways of doing things : of, relating to, or like a bureaucracy or bureaucrat
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