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BUREAUCRATIC PROCEDURE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bureaucratic procedure mean?
• BUREAUCRATIC PROCEDURE (noun)
The noun BUREAUCRATIC PROCEDURE has 1 sense:
1. needlessly time-consuming procedure
Familiarity information: BUREAUCRATIC PROCEDURE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• BUREAUCRATIC PROCEDURE (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Needlessly time-consuming procedure
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
bureaucratic procedure; red tape
Hypernyms ("bureaucratic procedure" is a kind of...):
procedure (a mode of conducting legal and parliamentary proceedings)
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