— bureaucratization , n.
/byoo rok"reuh tuyz'/ , v.t., bureaucratized, bureaucratizing .
1. to divide an administrative agency or office into bureaus.
2. to increase the number of government or business bureaus.
3. to cause to become bureaucratic or to resemble a bureaucracy: to bureaucratize a city's social services.
Also, esp. Brit., bureaucratise .
[ 1890-95; bureaucratiser. See BUREAUCRAT, -IZE ]