bureaucratic

adjective

bu·reau·crat·ic | \ ˌbyu̇r-ə-ˈkra-tik

, ˌbyər- \

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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Recent Examples on the Web In many places, signing up restaurants is a lengthy bureaucratic process, requiring eateries to fill out multiple applications and buy equipment to process SNAP cards. — Caitlin Dewey, USA TODAY, 4 Jan. 2022 The public sector is more bureaucratic and has complex procurement guidelines, long budget cycles and outdated systems. — Steve Grewal, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2021 As Andrew Tobias reports, staff at the Ohio Casino Control Commission at a Wednesday meeting laid out the bureaucratic process behind getting the new betting system up and running. — Jeremy Pelzer, cleveland, 16 Dec. 2021 But this less bureaucratic approval process for housing has greenlit further destruction of a sacred space known as the Shellmound, a 5,700-year-old Ohlone funerary and prayer site located in the Bay Area’s West Berkeley neighborhood. — Ray Levy Uyeda, The New Republic, 9 Dec. 2021 His biggest crusade this year has been to rail against women registering for the Selective Service, a bureaucratic process that has little meaning in a country that did away with the military draft 48 years ago and has no plans to bring it back. — Gilbert Garcia, San Antonio Express-News, 6 Nov. 2021 Years of bureaucratic red tape, arbitrary denials and slow-walking under former President Donald Trump created a backlog of more than 18,000 applicants and processing times that stretched into years. — Martha Raddatz, ABC News, 26 Dec. 2021 As governor, John could put up all kinds of bureaucratic red tape, shutting down the development in a number of ways. — Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 14 Dec. 2021 The effort to sell them off also has been marred by political dysfunction and bureaucratic red tape. — Liam Dillon Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2021

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