🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

官僚化する

Pronunciation / Transliteration: kanryōka suru

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Bureaucratize/bjʊəˈrɒk.rə.taɪz/
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"組織が大きくなると、どうしても官僚化してしまう。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To make bureaucratic; to subject to the administration of a bureaucracy, typically resulting in a proliferation of rules, red tape, and official procedures.

    "The new management framework threatened to bureaucratize the once-flexible startup."
  2. 2

    To become characteristic of a bureaucracy or adopt official, rigid administrative habits.

    "Over time, many idealistic non-profit organizations tend to bureaucratize as they expand."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from French 'bureaucratie' (combining French 'bureau', meaning office or desk, and Greek 'kratos', meaning power or rule) combined with the English verb-forming suffix '-ize'. It emerged in the 19th century to describe the growing tendency of organizations to adopt rigid administrative systems and official routines.

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