bureaucratize. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

bureaucratize

SYLLABICATION:	bu·reauc·ra·tize
PRONUNCIATION:	by-rkr-tz
TRANSITIVE VERB:	Inflected forms: bu·reauc·ra·tized, bu·reauc·ra·tiz·ing, bu·reauc·ra·tiz·es To make into a bureaucracy or bring under bureaucratic control: “The failure of communication is built—or . . . bureaucratized—into the legal system” (Anatole Broyard).
OTHER FORMS:	bu·reaucra·ti·zation (-t-zshn) —NOUN


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