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bureaucratic

[byoor-uh-krat-ik] / ˌbyʊər əˈkræt ɪk /
ADJECTIVE
administrative
Synonyms
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departmental governmental legislative managerial organizational policy-making regulatory supervisory
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authoritative central commanding controlling deciding decisive directing directive directorial executive governing in charge in control jurisdictional official presiding regulative ruling superintending supervising
ADJECTIVE
authoritative
Synonyms
WEAK
administrative approved canonical departmental ex cathedra ex officio executive imperial lawful legal legitimate magisterial mandatory ruling sanctioned sovereign supreme
ADJECTIVE
governmental
Synonyms
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administrative gubernatorial legal legislative presidential regulatory supervisory
WEAK
executive magisterial official sovereign
ADJECTIVE
impersonal
Synonyms
STRONGEST
abstract detached indifferent remote
WEAK
businesslike candid cold turkey cold-blooded colorless cool disinterested dispassionate emotionless equal equitable fair formal impartial inhuman neutral nondiscriminatory objective poker-faced straight strictly business unbiased uncolored unpassioned
Antonyms
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compassionate interested sympathetic
WEAK
friendly informal personable personal warm
ADJECTIVE
managerial
Synonyms
STRONGEST
commanding directorial governmental legislative ministerial organizational policy-making regulatory supervisory
WEAK
authoritative central controlling deciding decisive departmental directing directive executive governing in charge in control jurisdictional official presiding regulative ruling superintending supervising
ADJECTIVE
political
Synonyms
WEAK
civic constitutional economical legislative official
ADJECTIVE
supervisory
Synonyms
STRONGEST
departmental governmental legislative managerial ministerial organizational policy-making regulatory
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authoritative central commanding controlling deciding decisive directing directive directorial executive governing in charge in control jurisdictional official presiding regulative ruling superintending supervising

Example Sentences

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Europe’s regulatory machine is slow and bureaucratic, but for long-term decisions, slow and predictable is preferable to fast and erratic.

From The Wall Street Journal

None of the existing alternatives are as flexible, and many require complex bureaucratic processes to justify new tariffs.

From The Wall Street Journal

She is now trying to get Russian citizenship to be able to travel more freely, but is caught in a vicious bureaucratic cycle.

From Barron's

"When transparency leads the process, evil can no longer hide behind process failures or bureaucratic division."

From BBC

The tools have the potential to help the sector become more efficient and "save time at every stage of production", particularly in the more "bureaucratic" aspects of the process.

From Barron's

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.