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bureaucratise

bureaucratise is the alternative form of bureaucratize.

Meaning of bureaucratize

Verb

bureaucratize (third-person singular simple present bureaucratizes, present participle bureaucratizing, simple past and past participle bureaucratized)

  1. (transitive) To bring under the control of a bureaucracy; to make bureaucratic.
    • Measures aiming to centralize and bureaucratize the state's central finances […] were also introduced, bringing greater economy and rationality to the Treasury.2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 432

Forms of bureaucratise

third-person singular presentbureaucratises
present participlebureaucratising
past participlebureaucratised
pastbureaucratised

Questions about bureaucratise

What is bureaucratise the alternative form of?
Bureaucratise is the alternative form of bureaucratize.

Words near bureaucratise in the dictionary

  1. bureaucratically
  2. bureaucratie
  3. bureaucraties
  4. bureaucratisation
  5. bureaucratisations
  6. bureaucratise
  7. bureaucratised
  8. bureaucratises
  9. bureaucratising
  10. bureaucratism
  11. bureaucratisms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bureaucratise (page history and authors); bureaucratize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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