bureaucratically

adverb

In a bureaucratic manner.

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Meanings

adverbbureaucratically (comparative more bureaucratically, superlative most bureaucratically)

comparative more bureaucratically · superlative most bureaucratically

  1. In a bureaucratic manner.

    That one department is managed bureaucratically and the other adhocratically can make their interacting or interfacing difficult.

    1981, David R. Hampton, Contemporary Management (McGraw-Hill Series in Management), 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill Book Company, →ISBN, page 534
    1 more example

    As such, depending on the degree to which the particular school is more adhocratically or bureaucratically oriented, mainstreaming for these students more or less represents symbolic integration, primarily in nonacademic classrooms […]

    1992, Thomas Hehir, Thomas Latus, editors, Special Education at the Century's End: Evolution of Theory and Practice since 1970 (Harvard Educational Review Reprint Series; 23), Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Educational Review, →ISBN, page 256

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*péh₂wr̥
  2. Proto-Hellenic*pāwər
  3. Ancient Greekπῦρ (pûr)
  4. Ancient Greekπῠρρός (pŭrrhós)
  5. Latinburrus
  6. Latinburra
  7. Old French*bure
  8. Old Frenchburel
  9. Frenchbureau
  10. Proto-Indo-European*kret-
  11. Ancient Greekκρᾰ́τος (krắtos)
  12. Frenchbureaucratie
  13. Frenchbureaucrate
  14. Frenchbureaucratie
  15. Frenchbureaucratique
  16. Englishbureaucratic
  17. Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
  18. Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
  19. Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
  20. Proto-Germanic*līką
  21. Englishbureaucratically

From bureaucratic + -ally.

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Translations

Finnish byrokraattisesti
  • byrokraattisestiin a bureaucratic manner
French bureaucratiquement
  • bureaucratiquementin a bureaucratic manner
Italian burocraticamente
  • burocraticamentein a bureaucratic manner
Polish biuralistycznie, biurokratycznie
  • biuralistyczniein a bureaucratic manner
  • biurokratyczniein a bureaucratic manner
Portuguese burocraticamente
  • burocraticamentein a bureaucratic manner
Spanish burocráticamente
  • burocráticamentein a bureaucratic manner
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APA

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Chicago

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