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Bureaucratic

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Of or pertaining to bureaucracy or the actions of bureaucrats.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Of, relating to, or resembling, a bureaucracy.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Relating to or of the nature of bureaucracy.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. of or relating to or resembling a bureaucrat or bureaucracy

Word Usage

"Some in the Bush administration appear to believe that paying prevailing wages, maintaining nondiscrimination standards and documenting workers 'identities are examples of what they term bureaucratic inefficiency or red tape."

Equivalent

bureaucratical

Cross Reference

administrative

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

Adriatic Asiatic Attic Charismatic Democratic

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

governmental administrative legal centralize regulatory