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probureaucratic en · ADJ

Pronunciation

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Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *pér Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *próder. Proto-Italic *prō Latin prōder. English pro- 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 English probureaucratic From pro- + bureaucratic.

Meanings

1. In favour of bureaucracy.
   • It is really amusing to see the stop-gap leader of the only “organised political party”, in his intoxication of the newly acquired power, fondly imagining that every paper that exposes his whims and vagaries, his double dealing and duplicity, is antinational and probureaucratic and hence needs to be crushed. 1926, Madhava Rao, The Other Phase of the Medal. A Critical Rejoinder to The Swarajists’ Propaganda, Madras: The Justice Printing Press, archived from the original on 22 Jan 2025, Appendix B (2) by M. Annapurniah, page 88:
   • Thus the positions taken by the “Eurocommunists” are entirely situated within a counterrevolutionary perspective, which is probureaucratic and probourgeois at one and the same time. That is why they do not “reflect” the progressive aspirations of the masses for the “regeneration of the USSR,” any more than popular frontism reflects the aspirations of the masses for the workers united front: they are its very negation. 1979, Leninist Trotskyist Tendency; Arpo Dani (Spain); Strawson (Britain), Alice Georgiu; A. Dimitriou (Greece), “Critical Remarks on the United Secretariat's Text on ‘Eurocommunism’”, in International Internal Discussion Bulletin, volume 16, number 7, page 11a of 5–14:

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Antonyms

antibureaucratic