Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a bureaucratic manner; as a bureaucrat.
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- adverb In a
bureaucratic manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb with respect to bureaucracy
- adverb in a bureaucratic manner
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Examples
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Page 38just kind of bureaucratically and administratively, you know, our policies and procedures, the state office may — or is likely to share with a new program, because they've got it, because they haven't developed them yet.
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But it's in the wrong place, seismically and bureaucratically.
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The Macondo well was drilled in 5,067 feet of water, putting it in what is known, bureaucratically, as "ultra-deep water" -- anything deeper than 5,000 feet.
Deepwater Horizon and technological catastrophes Joel Achenbach 2010
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Among the hundreds of thousands of small nonprofits put at risk were many effective but bureaucratically naive outfits like the Fraternal Order of the Eagles and the Boys and Girls Clubs.
The IRS's Charity Purge Suzanne Garment 2011
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We've been moving in this direction, bureaucratically with more government control, but politics is, from now on out, from here on out, if it's not repealed, politics is going to determine who gets what kind of care and how much.
An Imperfect '10 2011
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All my immigrant ancestors came to America during a time when immigration was bureaucratically simple.
James Peron: Know Nothings and Immigrants: Some Things Never Change James Peron 2011
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So as the cleaning-out of the stables goes forward, who do the intelligence guys want up there on the hot seat before Congress: Friendly, politically and bureaucratically experienced and well-liked Leon Panetta?
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With an almost Dickensian exuberance they revealed beneath the well-ordered surfaces of Stockholm a seamy and fear-haunted network of criminals, exploiters and victims — not to mention the harried and at times bureaucratically stymied police force.
International Crime Fiction Geoffrey O'Brien 2010
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All my immigrant ancestors came to America during a time when immigration was bureaucratically simple.
James Peron: Know Nothings and Immigrants: Some Things Never Change James Peron 2011
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The NHS is often cited as symptomatic of this, a bureaucratically monstrous organisation awash with paper files of patient notes and fiercely resistant to being dragged into the 21st century.
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