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单词 bureaucratic
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Definition of bureaucratic in English:

bureaucratic

adjective ˌbjʊərəˈkratɪkˌbjɔːrəˈkratɪkˌbjʊrəˈkrædɪk
  • 1Relating to a system of government in which most of the important decisions are taken by state officials rather than by elected representatives.

    well-established bureaucratic procedures
    Example sentencesExamples
    • In addition to control, Congress also emphasizes bureaucratic accountability.
    • In short, both nations must sharply reduce their traditional bureaucratic power.
    • What is needed is a genuinely long-term approach that gives Pakistan the time and guidance necessary to emerge as an enlightened continental bureaucratic state.
    • A totally critical framework does not allow space for constructive struggle with and against varied bureaucratic factions.
    • Its Government reacted by cutting 40 years of bureaucratic control in seven hours.
    • The specialization of employee jobs cannot be as extensive as is possible in large and bureaucratic types of organizations.
    • The bureaucratic spirit pertains rather to stuffy Confucians, who foolishly imagine that the way to fulfill human potential is through service in officialdom.
    • Successful projects require enormous cooperation and creativity to incorporate nontraditional activities into a rigid bureaucratic system.
    • But the world was to pay a price beyond imagining for the consolidation of bureaucratic misrule in the Soviet Union.
    • The circulars created formidable bureaucratic regulations to collect the tariff, with those importing goods via railways facing particularly onerous requirements.
    • Social and bureaucratic structures display similar evolutionary patterns as well.
    • For that kind of money, we deserve bureaucrats who aren't very bureaucratic.
    • Surely, he cannot any longer be expected to bear the full brunt of our judicial and bureaucratic bungles.
    • There are two reasons for this: firstly, the process of medical decision making is now indistinguishable from other types of bureaucratic administration.
    • They are accustomed to consider democratic government as the best system of government and bureaucratic management as one of the great evils.
    • Faced with centrally organized and bureaucratic state apparatuses, dissident actors can adjust organizationally, moving towards more networked forms of organization.
    • Others have applied anthropology to community development, but outside the conventional bureaucratic channels of government agencies.
    • By creating a legal and bureaucratic route to union representation and contract negotiations, the National Labor Relations Act largely obviated recognition strikes.
    • The State Department is actually something of a bureaucratic minnow.
    • The sheer size of the project speaks volumes about the overly bureaucratic weight of Tokyo's government.
    Synonyms
    administrative, official, procedural, red-tape, governmental, ministerial, state, civic, constitutional, political
    rule-bound, rigid, inflexible, complicated
    by the book
    1. 1.1 Over-concerned with procedure at the expense of efficiency or common sense.
      the scheme is overly bureaucratic and complex
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In sum, it was a bureaucratic time system.
      • The bureaucratic struggle would resume, this time without the imperative of re-election hanging over both sides.
      • The problem is reported as being a mixture of incompetence, inexperience and bureaucratic infighting.
      • The new philanthropy consciously challenges the cautious, bureaucratic style of many of today's foundations.
      • Once those databases exist, their uses will doubtless expand, consistent with typical bureaucratic mission creep.
      • But the so called ' leaders ' keep mum and even some of them encourage the bureaucrats to carry on with their bureaucratic bunglings.
      • Many veterans are angry about the bureaucratic hurdles faced by the Iraqis who often came to work with a price on their heads.
      • She's also got the ability to play that kind of inside hand in the bureaucratic games that happen inside any government.
      • Too many of their proposed improvements and developments of services were frustrated by what they perceived as bureaucratic hurdles.
      • The whole vast, unwieldy bureaucratic mass was beginning to move.
      • This type of tragedy used to be met with a bureaucratic shrug of indifference.
      • Yet an important aspect of bureaucratic power is relationships with people who receive its actions or use its services.
      • Many do not receive the basic support they may be entitled to because the system is badly designed, extremely bureaucratic and poorly run.
      • But the Stephensons still faced a lengthy bureaucratic ordeal in order for an official identification to take place.
      • According to administrators of several private higher education institutions and some ministry officials, the procedure for gaining state recognition is quite long and bureaucratic.
      • Department of Motor Vehicles now strangled with bureaucratic red tape.
      • He reflected the mindset of a person who was caught up in a bizarre bureaucratic maze that he had no control over.
      • But when her daughter-in-law tried to protect herself with the new identity, she found herself in a web of bureaucratic confusion.
      • During time-critical events, this bureaucratic delay can result in missed opportunities by satellites with limited observation windows.
      • The strength of the poem comes from the bureaucratic sterility with which a Vietnam veteran sees the memorial.
      Synonyms
      rule-bound, rigid, inflexible, complicated

Derivatives

  • bureaucratically

  • adverbˌbjʊərəˈkratɪk(ə)liˌbjurəˈkrædək(ə)li
    • Indeed, such reductions would be needed to avoid creating a colossal institution that would be bureaucratically hide-bound and too sluggish to respond to the post-Cold War world.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • At the same time, academic freedom (that is, some lack of standardization and bureaucratically imposed structure) is essential to teach students to think.
      • The growth of bureaucratically mature states capable of organizing violence created increasingly strong competition for private military corporations.
      • Also, it is larger, more bureaucratically active, more political, more partisan, more purposeful, and more influential than anything similar in American history.
      • We would stop running schools bureaucratically and start running them entrepreneurially.

Rhymes

achromatic, acrobatic, Adriatic, aerobatic, anagrammatic, aquatic, aristocratic, aromatic, asthmatic, athematic, attic, autocratic, automatic, axiomatic, charismatic, chromatic, cinematic, climatic, dalmatic, democratic, diagrammatic, diaphragmatic, diplomatic, dogmatic, dramatic, ecstatic, emblematic, emphatic, enigmatic, epigrammatic, erratic, fanatic, hepatic, hieratic, hydrostatic, hypostatic, idiomatic, idiosyncratic, isochromatic, lymphatic, melodramatic, meritocratic, miasmatic, monochromatic, monocratic, monogrammatic, numismatic, operatic, panchromatic, pancreatic, paradigmatic, phlegmatic, photostatic, piratic, plutocratic, pneumatic, polychromatic, pragmatic, prelatic, prismatic, problematic, programmatic, psychosomatic, quadratic, rheumatic, schematic, schismatic, sciatic, semi-automatic, Socratic, somatic, static, stigmatic, sub-aquatic, sylvatic, symptomatic, systematic, technocratic, thematic, theocratic, thermostatic, traumatic

Definition of bureaucratic in US English:

bureaucratic

adjectiveˌbyo͝orəˈkradikˌbjʊrəˈkrædɪk
  • 1Relating to the business of running an organization, or government.

    well-established bureaucratic procedures
    Example sentencesExamples
    • What is needed is a genuinely long-term approach that gives Pakistan the time and guidance necessary to emerge as an enlightened continental bureaucratic state.
    • Others have applied anthropology to community development, but outside the conventional bureaucratic channels of government agencies.
    • In addition to control, Congress also emphasizes bureaucratic accountability.
    • There are two reasons for this: firstly, the process of medical decision making is now indistinguishable from other types of bureaucratic administration.
    • In short, both nations must sharply reduce their traditional bureaucratic power.
    • But the world was to pay a price beyond imagining for the consolidation of bureaucratic misrule in the Soviet Union.
    • A totally critical framework does not allow space for constructive struggle with and against varied bureaucratic factions.
    • Its Government reacted by cutting 40 years of bureaucratic control in seven hours.
    • Faced with centrally organized and bureaucratic state apparatuses, dissident actors can adjust organizationally, moving towards more networked forms of organization.
    • The specialization of employee jobs cannot be as extensive as is possible in large and bureaucratic types of organizations.
    • By creating a legal and bureaucratic route to union representation and contract negotiations, the National Labor Relations Act largely obviated recognition strikes.
    • The sheer size of the project speaks volumes about the overly bureaucratic weight of Tokyo's government.
    • They are accustomed to consider democratic government as the best system of government and bureaucratic management as one of the great evils.
    • The bureaucratic spirit pertains rather to stuffy Confucians, who foolishly imagine that the way to fulfill human potential is through service in officialdom.
    • Successful projects require enormous cooperation and creativity to incorporate nontraditional activities into a rigid bureaucratic system.
    • The State Department is actually something of a bureaucratic minnow.
    • Social and bureaucratic structures display similar evolutionary patterns as well.
    • For that kind of money, we deserve bureaucrats who aren't very bureaucratic.
    • Surely, he cannot any longer be expected to bear the full brunt of our judicial and bureaucratic bungles.
    • The circulars created formidable bureaucratic regulations to collect the tariff, with those importing goods via railways facing particularly onerous requirements.
    Synonyms
    administrative, official, procedural, red-tape, governmental, ministerial, state, civic, constitutional, political
    rule-bound, rigid, inflexible, complicated
    1. 1.1 Overly concerned with procedure at the expense of efficiency or common sense.
      the plan is overly bureaucratic and complex
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The strength of the poem comes from the bureaucratic sterility with which a Vietnam veteran sees the memorial.
      • But the Stephensons still faced a lengthy bureaucratic ordeal in order for an official identification to take place.
      • But when her daughter-in-law tried to protect herself with the new identity, she found herself in a web of bureaucratic confusion.
      • But the so called ' leaders ' keep mum and even some of them encourage the bureaucrats to carry on with their bureaucratic bunglings.
      • Once those databases exist, their uses will doubtless expand, consistent with typical bureaucratic mission creep.
      • According to administrators of several private higher education institutions and some ministry officials, the procedure for gaining state recognition is quite long and bureaucratic.
      • The new philanthropy consciously challenges the cautious, bureaucratic style of many of today's foundations.
      • Department of Motor Vehicles now strangled with bureaucratic red tape.
      • Too many of their proposed improvements and developments of services were frustrated by what they perceived as bureaucratic hurdles.
      • Many do not receive the basic support they may be entitled to because the system is badly designed, extremely bureaucratic and poorly run.
      • The problem is reported as being a mixture of incompetence, inexperience and bureaucratic infighting.
      • During time-critical events, this bureaucratic delay can result in missed opportunities by satellites with limited observation windows.
      • Yet an important aspect of bureaucratic power is relationships with people who receive its actions or use its services.
      • The bureaucratic struggle would resume, this time without the imperative of re-election hanging over both sides.
      • She's also got the ability to play that kind of inside hand in the bureaucratic games that happen inside any government.
      • Many veterans are angry about the bureaucratic hurdles faced by the Iraqis who often came to work with a price on their heads.
      • In sum, it was a bureaucratic time system.
      • The whole vast, unwieldy bureaucratic mass was beginning to move.
      • This type of tragedy used to be met with a bureaucratic shrug of indifference.
      • He reflected the mindset of a person who was caught up in a bizarre bureaucratic maze that he had no control over.
      Synonyms
      rule-bound, rigid, inflexible, complicated
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