bureaucraticadj.

Brit.

/ˌbjʊərəˈkratɪk/,

/ˌbjɔːrəˈkratɪk/, U.S.

/ˌbjʊrəˈˌkrædɪk/

Forms: 1800s– bureaucratic, 1800s– burocratic.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: bureau n., -cratic comb. form.

Etymology: < bureau n. + -cratic comb. form, after French bureaucratique (1796). Compare Italian burocratico (1813), German bureaukratisch (1819; now usually bürokratisch ). Compare later bureaucracy n., bureaucrat n. N.E.D. (1888) gives the pronunciation as (biū^əroˌkræ·tik) /bjʊərəʊˈkrætɪk/.

Frequently depreciative.

Of or relating to bureaucracy or bureaucrats; spec. characterized by behaviour or practice regarded as typical of bureaucracy, as an excessive or obstructive concern with formal procedure (cf. bureaucracy n. 3).

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > office > [adjective] > bureaucratic

functionary1668

bureaucratic1800

tape-tying1832

bureaucrat1849

red-tapish1850

red-tapey1860

tape-bound1900

tape-tied1900

striped-trouser(ed)1934

1800 T. H. Horne tr. L.-A. F. de Beaujour View Commerce Greece xxvii. 418 Bureaucratic luxury aims at devouring the republic. We tremble when we consider what legions of persons employed, and factors we have, and that they are equal in number to our soldiers.

1836 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 40 587/1 They are given usually through a bureaucratic influence.

1877 A. B. Edwards Thousand Miles up Nile xv. 401 We find an elaborate bureaucratic system in full operation.

1917 Indianapolis Sunday-Star 25 Nov. vi. 6/5 France now employs expert knowledge and not, as formerly, political bureaucratic stupidity.

1948 A. O'Rahilly Social Princ. viii. 55 The tidy bureaucratic minds of planners and blue-printers.

2012 J. Kane & H. Patapan Democratic Leader vi. 122 The proliferation of rules mindlessly applied, and of documented procedures blindly followed, produced the familiar bureaucratic nightmare of endless ‘red tape’.

Derivatives

bureauˈcratically adv. in a bureaucratic manner.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > office > [adverb] > bureaucratically

bureaucratically1852

1852 Allen's Indian Mail 9 Mar. 140/1 Colonial affairs will, for some time to come, be administered (to use a mongrel term) bureaucratically.

1976 Times 8 Mar. 13/3 The outrage of a party list system, whereby Smith Square would bureaucratically decide Buggins's turn.

2010 T. Barfield Afghanistan iv. 243 Coming from subsistence village economies, they found themselves in large refugee camps that were bureaucratically run and tied to political parties.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	bureaucratic
释义	bureaucraticadj. Brit. /ˌbjʊərəˈkratɪk/, /ˌbjɔːrəˈkratɪk/, U.S. /ˌbjʊrəˈˌkrædɪk/ Forms: 1800s– bureaucratic, 1800s– burocratic. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: bureau n., -cratic comb. form. Etymology: < bureau n. + -cratic comb. form, after French bureaucratique (1796). Compare Italian burocratico (1813), German bureaukratisch (1819; now usually bürokratisch ). Compare later bureaucracy n., bureaucrat n. N.E.D. (1888) gives the pronunciation as (biū^əroˌkræ·tik) /bjʊərəʊˈkrætɪk/. Frequently depreciative. Of or relating to bureaucracy or bureaucrats; spec. characterized by behaviour or practice regarded as typical of bureaucracy, as an excessive or obstructive concern with formal procedure (cf. bureaucracy n. 3). ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > [adjective] > bureaucratic functionary1668 bureaucratic1800 tape-tying1832 bureaucrat1849 red-tapish1850 red-tapey1860 tape-bound1900 tape-tied1900 striped-trouser(ed)1934 1800 T. H. Horne tr. L.-A. F. de Beaujour View Commerce Greece xxvii. 418 Bureaucratic luxury aims at devouring the republic. We tremble when we consider what legions of persons employed, and factors we have, and that they are equal in number to our soldiers. 1836 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 40 587/1 They are given usually through a bureaucratic influence. 1877 A. B. Edwards Thousand Miles up Nile xv. 401 We find an elaborate bureaucratic system in full operation. 1917 Indianapolis Sunday-Star 25 Nov. vi. 6/5 France now employs expert knowledge and not, as formerly, political bureaucratic stupidity. 1948 A. O'Rahilly Social Princ. viii. 55 The tidy bureaucratic minds of planners and blue-printers. 2012 J. Kane & H. Patapan Democratic Leader vi. 122 The proliferation of rules mindlessly applied, and of documented procedures blindly followed, produced the familiar bureaucratic nightmare of endless ‘red tape’. Derivatives bureauˈcratically adv. in a bureaucratic manner. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > [adverb] > bureaucratically bureaucratically1852 1852 Allen's Indian Mail 9 Mar. 140/1 Colonial affairs will, for some time to come, be administered (to use a mongrel term) bureaucratically. 1976 Times 8 Mar. 13/3 The outrage of a party list system, whereby Smith Square would bureaucratically decide Buggins's turn. 2010 T. Barfield Afghanistan iv. 243 Coming from subsistence village economies, they found themselves in large refugee camps that were bureaucratically run and tied to political parties. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1800
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