Meanings
nounbureaucrazy (countable and uncountable, plural bureaucrazies)
plural bureaucrazies
- countablederogatoryinformaluncountablepointless or illogical bureaucracy
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
- Englishbureaucracy
- Englishcrazy
- Englishbureaucrazy
Blend of bureaucracy + crazy.
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