as in governmental
of, relating to, or like a nonelective government official or body of government officials
a bureaucratic institution bureaucratic procedures
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Recent Examples of bureaucratic
Poole sees bureaucratic red tape, Burnett said, and will still try to do the work when another employee might just throw up their hands.
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Lizzie Kane, Chicago Tribune, 21 May 2025
Critics say work requirements would create a bureaucratic nightmare, forcing the government to try to verify and track the employment status and job searching efforts of tens of millions of people.
—Emily Wilkins,dan Mangan, CNBC, 20 May 2025
Instead of becoming digital cooperatives for the 21st century, DAOs largely devolved into digital homeowners’ association meetings complete with petty politics, bureaucratic inefficiency and governance theater.
—Boaz Sobrado, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025
The White House has also rolled out a program incentivizing undocumented residents to self-deport using a mobile app, offering up to $1,000 in travel stipends, in a bid to reduce enforcement costs and bureaucratic backlogs.
—Jason Lemon, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 May 2025
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Lizzie Kane, Chicago Tribune, 21 May 2025
Critics say work requirements would create a bureaucratic nightmare, forcing the government to try to verify and track the employment status and job searching efforts of tens of millions of people.
—Emily Wilkins,dan Mangan, CNBC, 20 May 2025
Instead of becoming digital cooperatives for the 21st century, DAOs largely devolved into digital homeowners’ association meetings complete with petty politics, bureaucratic inefficiency and governance theater.
—Boaz Sobrado, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025
The White House has also rolled out a program incentivizing undocumented residents to self-deport using a mobile app, offering up to $1,000 in travel stipends, in a bid to reduce enforcement costs and bureaucratic backlogs.
—Jason Lemon, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bureaucratic
Adjective
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The scandal took place just months before the Oct 3-4 parliamentary election.—
Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports,
Arkansas Online,
31 May 2025
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This lamentable record is spurring calls to amend the constitution from the current single five-year term to two terms, as well as perhaps holding parliamentary elections at the same time as presidential to avoid the executive and legislature being constantly at odds with each other.—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
29 May 2025
Adjective
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Used over six centuries from roughly 2000 B.C. until 1450 B.C., the Minoan palaces were the main administrative, economic, religious and ideological centers of Crete, says Christakis.—
Bruce Dorminey,
Forbes.com,
7 June 2025
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The Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency has cut as many as 120,000 federal jobs but many workers have been placed on administrative leave, leaving them on U.S. payrolls pending court cases, Morgan Stanley said in a report.—
Paul Davidson,
USA Today,
7 June 2025
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“Bureaucratic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bureaucratic. Accessed 12 Jun. 2025.
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