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bu•reauc•ra•tize
(byŏŏ rok′rə tīz′),USA pronunciation v.t., -tized, -tiz•ing.
bu•reauc′ra•ti•za′tion, n.
- Governmentto divide an administrative agency or office into bureaus.
- Governmentto increase the number of government or business bureaus.
- Governmentto cause to become bureaucratic or to resemble a bureaucracy:to bureaucratize a city's social services.
- French bureaucratiser. See bureaucrat, -ize
- 1890–95