Synonyms for red tape
red tape

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1. red tapenoun

   Synonyms:
   administrativia, paperwork, administrivia

2. red tapenoun

   A derisive term for regulations or bureaucratic procedures that are considered excessive or excessively time- and effort-consuming.

   All the red tape and paperwork that goes on there prevents any progress.

   Synonyms:
   paperwork, administrativia, administrivia

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1. bureaucratic procedure, red tapenoun

   needlessly time-consuming procedure

   Synonyms:
   bureaucratic procedure

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1. Berin Szoka:

   Yet broadband deployment remains unnecessarily difficult because of red tape, high fees and poor infrastructure planning at all levels of government, fixing that could bring faster, cheaper broadband to millions of Americans, especially in rural areas.

2. Chuck Michel:

   For years San Francisco politicians have inappropriately blamed licensed and inspected gun retailers for violence actually caused by gangs, drugs, and sanctuary city laws, the City has imposed a crushing burden of redundant and pointless regulatory red-tape on firearm retailers, all in an effort to put them out of business. Now they have gotten their wish.

3. Prime Minister Daniel Kablan Duncan:

   The constraints that tend to slow down investment are primarily on the supply of pods, finance, the high cost of borrowing seen and export red tape.

4. Morris Chestnut:

   Studio red tape, just getting them to give it the green light.

5. Kirk Evoy:

   Allowing it to be over-the-counter in the same manner in every state really clears up some confusion and hopefully clears up some of that red tape.