probureaucratic

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adjective

In favour of bureaucracy.

Scrabble 23

Meanings

adjectiveprobureaucratic (comparative more probureaucratic, superlative most probureaucratic)

comparative more probureaucratic · superlative most probureaucratic · alternative pro-bureaucratic

  1. In favour of bureaucracy.
    2 more examples

    It is really amusing to see the stop-gap leader of the only “organised political party”, in his intoxication of the newly acquired power, fondly imagining that every paper that exposes his whims and vagaries, his double dealing and duplicity, is antinational and probureaucratic and hence needs to be crushed.

    1926, Madhava Rao, The Other Phase of the Medal. A Critical Rejoinder to The Swarajists’ Propaganda, Madras: The Justice Printing Press, archived from the original on 22 Jan 2025, Appendix B (2) by M. Annapurniah, page 88

    Thus the positions taken by the “Eurocommunists” are entirely situated within a counterrevolutionary perspective, which is probureaucratic and probourgeois at one and the same time. That is why they do not “reflect” the progressive aspirations of the masses for the “regeneration of the USSR,” any more than popular frontism reflects the aspirations of the masses for the workers united front: they are its very negation.

    1979, Leninist Trotskyist Tendency; Arpo Dani (Spain); Strawson (Britain), Alice Georgiu; A. Dimitriou (Greece), “Critical Remarks on the United Secretariat's Text on ‘Eurocommunism’”, in International Internal Discussion Bulletin, volume 16, number 7, page 11a of 5–14

    Antonyms: antibureaucratic

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveIn favour of bureaucracy.

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*per-der.?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*pér
  3. Proto-Indo-European*pró
  4. Proto-Italic*prō
  5. Latinprō
  6. Englishpro-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*péh₂wr̥
  8. Proto-Hellenic*pāwər
  9. Ancient Greekπῦρ (pûr)
  10. Ancient Greekπῠρρός (pŭrrhós)
  11. Latinburrus
  12. Latinburra
  13. Old French*bure
  14. Old Frenchburel
  15. Frenchbureau
  16. Proto-Indo-European*kret-
  17. Ancient Greekκρᾰ́τος (krắtos)
  18. Frenchbureaucratie
  19. Frenchbureaucrate
  20. Frenchbureaucratie
  21. Frenchbureaucratique
  22. Englishbureaucratic
  23. Englishprobureaucratic

From pro- + bureaucratic.

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