Usually means: Complex, rule-bound administrative system.
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  1. bureaucratic: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. bureaucratic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bureaucratic: Collins English Dictionary
  4. bureaucratic: Vocabulary.com
  5. Bureaucratic, bureaucratic: Wordnik
  6. bureaucratic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. bureaucratic: Wiktionary
  8. bureaucratic: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. bureaucratic: Dictionary.com
  10. bureaucratic: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Bureaucratic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Bureaucratic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. bureaucratic: Rhymezone
  14. Bureaucratic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. bureaucratic: Free Dictionary
  16. bureaucratic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. bureaucratic: Dictionary/thesaurus
  18. Bureaucratic: Dictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bureaucratic: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bureaucratic: Encyclopedia

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adjective:  Of or pertaining to bureaucracy or the actions of bureaucrats.

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