burocratic

English

Alternative forms

• bureaucrat

Etymology

From burocrat +‎ -ic.

Adjective

burocratic (comparative more burocratic, superlative most burocratic)

1. Of or pertaining to burocracy or the actions of burocrats.
   • 1963, Henry Louis Mencken, The American language: an inquiry into the development of English in the United States.‎^[1], Digitized edition, published 2009, page 491:

     … 1962 Style Book, p63, specifies the following: aging, altho, ameba, analog, apolog, burocracy, burocratic, …

   • 2010, tefan Zweig, Lotte Zweig, Darién J. Davis, Oliver Marshall, Stefan and Lotte Zweig's South American Letters: New York, Argentina and Brazil, 1940–42‎^[2], Continuum International Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 82:

     … but always there is some thing forgotten or a detail wanting in these burocratic times …

   • 2011, Gokhan Tur, Renato De Mori, “7.4.4”, in Spoken Language Understanding‎^[3], John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:

     Particularly in large companies, it may be difficult or even impossible for research and development people to access data processed in operation departments due to legal, political, or burocratic constraints.

   • 2011, Ulrike Schmieder, Michael Zeuske, Katja Füllberg-Stolberg, The End of Slavery in Africa and the Americas‎^[4], LIT Verlag Münster, →ISBN, page 68:

     But there is an astonishing aspect of the official treatment of emancipados in burocratic documents of the colonial state.

   • 2011, Niels M. Blokker, Henry G. Schermers, International Institutional Law: Unity within Diversity‎^[5] (Law), Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, →ISBN, page 558:

     Veto Players and Decision-making in the EU After Nice: Policy Stability and Burocratic/Judicial Discretion …

Translations

of or pertaining to bureaucracy

• Catalan: burocràtic (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 官僚的

• Czech: byrokratický
• Danish: bureaukratisk
• Finnish: byrokraattinen (fi), virkavaltainen
• German: bürokratisch (de)
• Greek: γραφειοκρατικός (el) m (grafeiokratikós)
• Hungarian: bürokratikus (hu)
• Irish: maorlathach
• Macedonian: бирокра́тски (birokrátski)
• Portuguese: burocrático (pt)
• Russian: бюрократи́ческий (ru) (bjurokratíčeskij)
• Spanish: burocrático (es)
• Turkish: bürokratik (tr)

See also

• administrative