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RED TAPE

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Dictionary entry overview: What does red tape mean?

• RED TAPE (noun)
The noun RED TAPE has 1 sense:

1. needlessly time-consuming procedure

Familiarity information: RED TAPE used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• RED TAPE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Needlessly time-consuming procedure

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

bureaucratic procedure; red tape

Hypernyms ("red tape" is a kind of...):

procedure (a mode of conducting legal and parliamentary proceedings)

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