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burotica

office automation

noun boo-ROH-tee-kah Rare

Origin: French bureautique (bureau + informatique)

Usage Note

Burotica is feminine: la burotica, with no commonly used plural. It is a specialist term for the integration of computing tools into office administration (word processing, spreadsheets, databases). Outside formal or technical writing, Italians more often say informatica d'ufficio. The word is a calque of French bureautique.

Examples

"Il corso di burotica è obbligatorio in azienda."

Natural Translation

The office-automation course is compulsory at the company.

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