bureaucratize
/bjʊˈrɑːkrətaɪz/
verb
- To make a process, organization, or activity more complicated and slow by adding many rules, procedures, and levels of management.
- The company decided to bureaucratize its hiring process, requiring three levels of approval for every new employee.
- Many small businesses worry that new government regulations will bureaucratize their simple operations.
- The school's attempt to bureaucratize lunch sign-ups led to long lines and frustrated students.
- To change a system or institution so that it is run by officials who follow fixed routines and rules, often reducing flexibility.
- The university decided not to bureaucratize its research funding process, keeping it simple for professors.
- Over the years, the charity became increasingly bureaucratized, with managers focused on paperwork instead of helping people.
- Some critics argue that efforts to bureaucratize healthcare have made it harder for patients to get timely treatment.
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