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bureaucratize
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bu·reauc·ra·tize  (by-rkr-tz)
tr.v. bu·reauc·ra·tized, bu·reauc·ra·tiz·ing, bu·reauc·ra·tiz·es
To make into a bureaucracy or bring under bureaucratic control: "The failure of communication is builtor . . . bureaucratizedinto the legal system" (Anatole Broyard).

bu·reaucra·ti·zation (-t-zshn) n.

bureaucratize, bureaucratise [bjʊəˈrɒkrəˌtaɪz]
vb
(tr) to administer by or transform into a bureaucracy
bureaucratization , bureaucratisation n


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They let us see how we can squeeze the life out of a process by standardising, ratifying, certifying, bureaucratising, formalising.
LAC is bureaucratising (form filling) and deskills the professionals Commonly raised concerns (Garrett 1999a: 37, Knight and Caveney 1998: 31-36, Bell 1998/99: 20-21, and Munro 2001: 134) about the LAC forms argue that the checklist format is alienating, overly directive, and that it bureaucratizes interaction with the child.
Evidence of this can be found in the rationalising and bureaucratising of more and more features of daily life; the craze for sport among all categories of people; modernisation of the religious sphere; development of private enterprise; the birth of urban culture; social activism among women; the stress on individual autonomy, and respect for legal and other regulations.
 
 
 
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