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bureaucratically en · ADV

Pronunciation

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Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *péh₂wr̥ Proto-Hellenic *pāwər Ancient Greek πῦρ (pûr) Proto-Indo-European *-rós Proto-Hellenic *-rós Ancient Greek -ρός (-rós) Ancient Greek πῠρρός (pŭrrhós)bor. Latin burrus Latin burra Old French *bure Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -lus Latin -ellus Old French -el Old French burel French bureau Proto-Indo-European *kret-der. Ancient Greek κρᾰ́τος (krắtos) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek -κρᾰτῐ́ᾱ (-krătĭ́ā)lbor. French -cratie French bureaucratie French bureaucrate Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -ique Middle French -ique French -ique ▲ French bureaucratie ▲ French -ique French bureaucratiquebor. English bureaucratic Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly Middle English -ally English -ally English bureaucratically From bureaucratic + -ally.

Meanings

1. In a bureaucratic manner.
   • That one department is managed bureaucratically and the other adhocratically can make their interacting or interfacing difficult. 1981, David R. Hampton, Contemporary Management (McGraw-Hill Series in Management), 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill Book Company, →ISBN, page 534:
   • As such, depending on the degree to which the particular school is more adhocratically or bureaucratically oriented, mainstreaming for these students more or less represents symbolic integration, primarily in nonacademic classrooms […] 1992, Thomas Hehir, Thomas Latus, editors, Special Education at the Century's End: Evolution of Theory and Practice since 1970 (Harvard Educational Review Reprint Series; 23), Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Educational Review, →ISBN, page 256:

Forms

Relateds

bureaucracy · bureaucrat · bureaucratese

Translations (11)

sh biròkratski (in a bureaucratic manner) · sh биро̀кратски (in a bureaucratic manner) · pl biurokratycznie (in a bureaucratic manner) · ka ბიუროკრატიულად (in a bureaucratic manner) · fi byrokraattisesti (in a bureaucratic manner) · pl biuralistycznie (in a bureaucratic manner) · gl burocraticamente (in a bureaucratic manner) · es burocráticamente (in a bureaucratic manner) · fr bureaucratiquement (in a bureaucratic manner) · it burocraticamente (in a bureaucratic manner) · pt burocraticamente (in a bureaucratic manner)