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red tape
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red tape
n.
The collection or sequence of forms and procedures required to gain bureaucratic approval for something, especially when oppressively complex and time-consuming.
[From its former use in tying British official documents.]
red tape
n
obstructive official routine or procedure; time-consuming bureaucracy
[from the red tape used to bind official government documents]
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Noun1.red tape - needlessly time-consuming procedurered tape - needlessly time-consuming procedure
bureaucratic procedure
procedure - a mode of conducting legal and parliamentary proceedings
red tape
noun bureaucracy, the government, administration, the system, the authorities, officialdom, the corridors of power They are hamstrung to red tape.
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red tape n → lungaggini fpl burocratiche
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