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bureaucratitis

bureaucratitis noun: excessive bureaucracy; red tape.

Noun

bureaucratitis (uncountable)

  1. Excessive bureaucracy; red tape.
    • I don't like the ergophilia, bureaucratitis, technomania and war fever that I'm surrounded by, yet these things don't actually get labelled as sicknesses.2004, Colin Feltham, Problems Are Us: Or Is It Just Me?, →ISBN, page 234

Origin of bureaucratitis

From bureaucrat + -itis.

Questions about bureaucratitis

What does bureaucratitis mean?
Bureaucratitis means excessive bureaucracy; red tape.
What part of speech is bureaucratitis?
Bureaucratitis is a noun.

Words near bureaucratitis in the dictionary

  1. bureaucratism
  2. bureaucratisms
  3. bureaucratist
  4. bureaucratistic
  5. bureaucratists
  6. bureaucratitis
  7. bureaucratization
  8. bureaucratizations
  9. bureaucratize
  10. bureaucratized
  11. bureaucratizes

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