bureaucraticadjective
uk/ˌbjʊə.rəˈkræt.ɪk/us/ˌbjʊr.əˈkræt̬.ɪk/mainly disapprovingrelating to a system of controlling or managing a country, company, or organization that is operated by a large number of officials:
The company was inefficient because it was highly bureaucratic.
involving complicated rules and processes that make something slow and difficult:
I had a lot of bureaucratic hassle trying to get the information I needed.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Managing and organizing
- act
- administer
- administration
- bureaucracy
- campaign
- central
- head sth up
- in hand idiom
- kaizen
- manage
- management
- mind the store idiom
- run the show idiom
- running
- shakedown
- square
- square sth/sb away
- stage
- stage-manage
- stewardship
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