Meanings
comparative more bureaucratically · superlative most bureaucratically
- 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 5341 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
- Proto-Indo-European*péh₂wr̥
- Proto-Hellenic*pāwər
- Ancient Greekπῦρ (pûr)
- Ancient Greekπῠρρός (pŭrrhós)
- Latinburrus
- Latinburra
- Old French*bure
- Old Frenchburel
- Frenchbureau
- Proto-Indo-European*kret-
- Ancient Greekκρᾰ́τος (krắtos)
- Frenchbureaucratie
- Frenchbureaucrate
- Frenchbureaucratie
- Frenchbureaucratique
- Englishbureaucratic
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
- Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
- Proto-Germanic*līką
- Englishbureaucratically
From bureaucratic + -ally.
Full word history & related roots →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
Cite this entry
bureaucratically. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bureaucratically
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