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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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Landrieu also had to contend with New Orleans' unique bureaucratic balkanization.
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The program is expensive and bureaucratic, requiring employers to pay for each workers’ transportation to the U.S. and lawyers’ fees.
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His advisers knew that, in order to win, the soft-spoken peace negotiator needed to appeal to all of Fatah, not just the bureaucratic elite.
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Well, not evil, really, but more bureaucratic, legalistic b.s.
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The window for inconsistent enforcement and bureaucratic bungling by officials appears to be substantial.
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There is, however, a logic to it, at least a sort of insane bureaucratic logic.
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The city still has not responded to the request or to other public comments sent to the state agency, dragging out a bureaucratic process that already had been delayed for years.
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Mexico is highly bureaucratic but also keeps official information closely guarded.
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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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BUREAUCRATIC Defined for English Language Learners
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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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