bureaucratic

bureaucratique

Qui impose trop de règles et de démarches officielles, rendant souvent les choses inutilement difficiles.

En anglais simple : Using too many official rules and procedures, often making things unnecessarily difficult.

• Bureaucratic delays held up our application.
• Getting permission became a bureaucratic nightmare.
• The process is so bureaucratic that even a small change takes months.

Synonymes : overregulated

Expressions courantes : bureaucratic delays, bureaucratic obstacles, bureaucratic red tape

bureaucratique

Qui concerne les services, les fonctionnaires et les procédures assurant la gestion d’un État ou d’une grande organisation.

En anglais simple : Connected with the offices, officials, and procedures that manage a government or large organization.

• Each department has a bureaucratic structure.
• The report describes the country’s bureaucratic system.
• Bureaucratic procedures determine how public money is distributed.

Synonymes : administrative

Expressions courantes : bureaucratic structure, bureaucratic system, bureaucratic procedures