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Synonyms for red tape in English

Summary

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red tape:
- red tape; pedantry; chinoiserie; paperwork; bureaucratic machinery
- red tape; bureaucratic procedure

English

Detailed Synonyms for red tape in English

red tape:

red tape

red tape
red tape; pedantry; chinoiserie
red tape
red tape; paperwork
- red tape
- paperwork
red tape
red tape; bureaucratic machinery
- red tape
- bureaucratic machinery

red tape [the ~] noun

the red tape

– needlessly time-consuming procedure ¹
the red tape; the bureaucratic procedure
– needlessly time-consuming procedure ¹
- red tape [the ~] noun
- bureaucratic procedure [the ~] noun

Alternate Synonyms for "red tape":

bureaucratic procedure; procedure

Related Definitions for "red tape":

needlessly time-consuming procedure¹

Related Synonyms for red tape

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