To organize something through bureaucratic rules, offices or procedures.
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Words that belong together
- bureaucratize a process
- bureaucratize an organization
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The new rules bureaucratized a process previously managed informally.
The organization was bureaucratized through specialized offices and reporting duties.
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Word forms
- Base
- bureaucratize
- Past tense
- bureaucratized
- Past participle
- bureaucratized
- Present participle
- bureaucratizing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- bureaucratize
- Present continuous
- am/is/are bureaucratizing
- Present perfect
- have/has bureaucratized
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been bureaucratizing
- Past
- bureaucratized
- Past continuous
- was/were bureaucratizing
- Past perfect
- had bureaucratized
- Past perfect continuous
- had been bureaucratizing
- Future
- will bureaucratize
- Future continuous
- will be bureaucratizing
- Future perfect
- will have bureaucratized
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been bureaucratizing
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: bureaucratize; bureaucratizes; bureaucratized; bureaucratized; bureaucratizing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: institutional and conceptual change, philosophical orientation, qualification of recurrence and degree. Disciplines: academic writing, philosophy, cross-disciplinary analysis. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: bureaucratizes.
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