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bureaucratist

bureaucratist adjective: focused on or in favor of bureaucratic approaches.

Adjective

bureaucratist

  1. Focused on or in favor of bureaucratic approaches.
    • The bureaucratist regime is one whose segmentation typically occurs on the basis of division between superordinates and subordinates (and their unions).2019, Ali Farazmand, Handbook of Comparative and Development Public Administration, page 243
    • Reviewing the academic literature on corruption and other ills in Sierra Leone (Reno, 1995; Richards, 1996; Gberie, 2002), I argue these literate discourses look at corruption in Sierra Leone from a bureaucratist position—seeing it mainly as a deviation from the moral superiority of the...2024, Emmanuel Saffa Abdulai, Ina Kubbe, The Diverse Facets of Corruption in Sierra Leone, page 38

Noun

bureaucratist (plural bureaucratists)

  1. An advocate or supporter of bureaucracy.

Forms of bureaucratist

pluralbureaucratists

Origin of bureaucratist

From bureaucrat + -ist.

Questions about bureaucratist

What does bureaucratist mean?
Bureaucratist means focused on or in favor of bureaucratic approaches.
What part of speech is bureaucratist?
Bureaucratist can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near bureaucratist in the dictionary

  1. bureaucratised
  2. bureaucratises
  3. bureaucratising
  4. bureaucratism
  5. bureaucratisms
  6. bureaucratist
  7. bureaucratistic
  8. bureaucratists
  9. bureaucratitis
  10. bureaucratization
  11. bureaucratizations

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