A person holding public office who proposes or enforces unnecessary rules and regulation as a method of gaining notoriety or inflating the importance of their position.
Being bureactocratic is doing something of little or no value simply to appear pro-active about one's business.
by goldhillman June 18, 2009
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I hope you're not too frustrated on this St Francis Yacht Club thing Judy. It seems that some of these big Prestigious Yacht Clubs are beset with bureaurocratitis.
by Holly Goodhead March 9, 2014
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A bureaucracy that functions as though the individual bureaus and bureaucrats are making authoritative decisions independently of all the other bureaus and bureaucrats.
Generally used among college students to describe the situation of having to resolve a problem (billing, financial aid, holds, transfers of credits, etc) independently at each level of administration rather than just once at the originating department.
Generally used among college students to describe the situation of having to resolve a problem (billing, financial aid, holds, transfers of credits, etc) independently at each level of administration rather than just once at the originating department.
Johnny paid his library fines and the librarian removed the registration-hold from his account, but because of the bureautocracy he had to show the receipt to registration, accounts receivable, and the bursar before he could actually register for classes.
by Johnny Lexiconic November 6, 2008
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