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Grammar help?

I'm searching for a word that means "military-like", as in "my boss runs a very serious, "military-like" office."

I'm not sure if "militaristic" would work, as that usually pertains to actual focus on a military, as to where I'm just trying to embody the strictness and structure of the military in an everyday setting.

I also considered "militarian" which seems to have some definitions that are similar to what I'm looking for, but isn't actually in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. I don't want to use a word that isn't universally accepted.

Should I go with either of those words or is there another word that I'm completely missing that fits into what I'm trying to convey?

3 Answers

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  • 5 years ago

    Words can be used figuratively. Like if you call the cadre of mall cops the Lakeside Place Mall Gestapo, they really AREN'T the gestapo, but they are drunk on power.

    People will get your meaning.

  • Laurie
    Lv 7
    5 years ago

    militant

    army-like

    regulation

    by the book

    shipshape

    orderly

    obedient

    top-down

  • MaryB
    Lv 6
    5 years ago

    martinet: a strict disciplinarian, especially a military one.

    martinetish, adj.

    martinetism, noun

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