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[ adjective ] of or relating to or resembling a bureaucrat or bureaucracy
Examples "his bureaucratic behavior annoyed his colleagues" "a bureaucratic nightmare" Used in print (The Department of State: A Fresh Look at the...)What I am suggesting is that when we delay , or when we fail to act , we do so intentionally and not through inadvertence or through bureaucratic or procedural difficulties . This does not mean in a purely bureaucratic sense but in an active , operational , interested , responsible fashion . (Morton A. Kaplan and Nicholas de B. Katzenbach,...)The efforts of various interest groups to control or influence governmental decisions , particularly when taken in conjunction with the impact of industrialization , led to a concentration of attention on the legislative power and the means whereby policy could be formulated and enforced as law through bureaucratic institutions . Related terms |
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