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RED TAPE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Needlessly time-consuming procedure
Synonyms:
bureaucratic procedure; red tape
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("red tape" is a kind of...):
procedure (a mode of conducting legal and parliamentary proceedings)
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