Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as red-tapism.

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Examples

  • What a pity that, owing to judicial red-tapery, I am prohibited from popping in upon him at lunch and importuning him to pronounce a decree in my favour!

    Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. F. Anstey 1895

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