connected with a bureaucracy or bureaucrats and involving complicated official rules which may seem unnecessary bureaucratic power/control/procedures/organizations The report revealed a great deal of bureaucratic inefficiency. centralized bureaucratic administration
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NAmE//ˌbyʊrəˈkræt̮ɪkli//
adverbSee bureaucratic in the Oxford Advanced Learner's DictionaryCheck pronunciation: bureaucratic