bureaucraticbu‧reau‧crat‧ic /ˌbjʊərəˈkrætɪk◂ $ ˌbjʊr-/ ●○○ adjective 
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Thesaurus- The procedure for getting funding approval is so bureaucratic!
- Trying to enforce the law regulating the length of passenger buses has been a bureaucratic nightmare.
- But the bureaucratic model developed in conditions very different from those we experience today.
- By some bureaucratic error I was never recalled, and because of this I never became a Giovane Fascista.
- Chennault and Alsop were losing the bureaucratic war.
- One such is the following chart, which can be used to devise typical bureaucratic phrases that sound impressive but mean nothing.
- Postmodernism points to a more organic, less differentiated enclave of organization than those dominated by the bureaucratic designs of modernity.
- The administrators in Gamma behave in accordance with the bureaucratic ideal.
- The assumption that large authorities are costly and bureaucratic is wrong, according to the Regional Council.
- Yet government was not in any strict sense bureaucratic.
Longman Language Activatora complicated official system► bureaucracy
Collocations a complicated, official system in which there are a lot of rules and processes that you have to complete, especially one that employs a lot of people: · The EU bureaucracy in Brussels has grown in size and authority.· We need less bureaucracy in the school system - teachers should be allowed to make more decisions.
► bureaucratic involving a lot of complicated official rules and processes: · The procedure for getting funding approval is so bureaucratic!bureaucratic nightmare (=official system that is extremely complicated and annoying): · Trying to enforce the law regulating the length of passenger buses has been a bureaucratic nightmare.
► red tape complicated and annoying official rules that you have to obey before you can do or have something: · There's so much red tape involved in getting a work permit.cut through red tape (=avoid it): · There must be a way to cut through all this red tape.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► bureaucratic barriers
involving a lot of complicated official rules and processes—bureaucratically /-kli/ adverb· This is one of many bureaucratic barriers preventing the unemployed from claiming benefit.
► legal/bureaucratic/administrative hassle· It took weeks of bureaucratic hassle to get a replacement passport.
► an administrative/bureaucratic nightmare (=something that is very complicated and difficult to keep accurate records of)· Dealing with so many new applications for asylum is an administrative nightmare.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► control· The Burger King organisation operates a highly bureaucratic control system.· Too many bureaucratic controls will lead to too little profit.· Authorizing expenses, travel and recruitment are forms of bureaucratic control rather than manifestations of subordination.
► interference· He had quit, he said, because he no longer knew what to say when head teachers complained about bureaucratic interference.· More will become involved if given the opportunity to experiment free of regulatory restraints and bureaucratic interference.· Midge protested at what she saw as bureaucratic interference in what should have been a private grief.
► organization· As for hospitals, they are the essence of everything bad about bureaucratic organization.
► power· Conventional public administration sees the problem of bureaucratic power in these terms.· The growth of bureaucratic power since 1900, Handlin wrote, had begun ominously to encroach upon the freedom of the individual.· Marxism sees bureaucratic power as a matter of relations between classes.· This is but an extension of the expertise which Max Weber claimed to be the foundation of bureaucratic power.
► procedure· Organisations that apply for the DoI's research cash say that bureaucratic procedures and shortage of staff are to blame.
► process· All investigations, nomatterwhat the books said, depended on bureaucratic processes.· Mangano described a complicated, time-consuming bureaucratic process that the insurance programs are required to undertake to set their reimbursement rates.· Added to this are the inefficiencies in the implementation of the decisions of the politician through the bureaucratic process.
► structure· Indeed, viewing society as a whole as an organization, we see that bureaucratic structures may generate a self-confirming equilibrium.· Cattle stealers had to outwit a government with a modern, bureaucratic structure.· It became logically possible for bureaucratic structures to perform all four input and all three output functions.· Perhaps it has got bogged down in meetings and bureaucratic structures.· It is no good advocating a more participative style of leadership if the organisation is dominated by a bureaucratic structure.