单词 | bureaucratize |
释义 | bureaucratizev. transitive. To administer or control by means of bureaucracy; to make bureaucratic. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > [verb (transitive)] > bureaucratic bureaucratize1865 1865 Sanitary Comm. Bull. (Washington, D.C.) May 1219/2 A habit of dependence on the Government machinery has not only centralized, but bureaucratized our motions. 1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 7 Dec. 6/1 Political thinkers have long noted the tendency of democracies to organize, to centralize, to bureaucratize institutions. 1945 ‘G. Orwell’ in New Saxon Pamphlets iii. 39 The radio was bureaucratised so early in its career that the relationship between broadcasting and literature has never been thought out. 1970 Amer. Scholar 39 236 It [sc. the Tennessee Valley Authority] has bureaucratized its interests and rhetoric and identified itself with the status quo. 1999 W. Soyinka Burden of Memory i. 30 Never was mass murder more meticulously bureaucratized. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < v.1865 |
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