Synonyms for red-tape
red-tape

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1. List of paraphrases for "red-tape":

   bureaucracy, bureaucratic

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1. Donald Trump:

   Let's cut the red tape, let's set free our dreams.

2. Lee Stiles:

   Spanish and Morocco growers have also decided to sell to Europe instead to avoid the costs of a four-day road trip to Britain, additional fuels costs, customs fees, red tape and queues at the border.

3. Ashok Gulati:

   Every year, a large amount of funds allocated for irrigation lie unutilized and that's because of lethargy, red tape, inept administration and a lack of political will.

4. Kathleen Sgamma:

   Sometimes you hear politicians who talk about that but you wonder if they will have people in place who understand how to effectively cut through the red tape, i did not expect that the Trump administration would be fairly sophisticated in countering that and willing to do so quickly in the first 100 hundred days.

5. Paul Tabori, _The Natural Science of Stupidity_. (New York: ChiltonCompany, 1960), p. 104.:

   Modern war has decimated many a country; but it has always spawned millions of bureaucrats. They fatten on shortages and thrive on trouble. Peace can never offer such opportunities for exercising petty tyrannies, using red tape to regiment the individual and making life generally unpleasant.