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bureaucratizing

bureaucratizing is the present participle and gerund 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

Questions about bureaucratizing

What is bureaucratizing the present participle and gerund of?
Bureaucratizing is the present participle and gerund of bureaucratize.

Words near bureaucratizing in the dictionary

  1. bureaucratization
  2. bureaucratizations
  3. bureaucratize
  4. bureaucratized
  5. bureaucratizes
  6. bureaucratizing
  7. bureaucrats
  8. bureaucratspeak
  9. bureaucrazies
  10. bureaucrazy
  11. bureaugamous

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bureaucratizing (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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