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Red tape.
This is a negative term for the official paperwork and bureaucracy that we have to deal with.
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page C1 AN ART COLLECTION GOES INTO HIDING Somewhere, out of sight and bound by metric tons of red tape, there lies a great collection of 20th century art, with works by Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Gunther Gerzso.
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After going through a ton of red tape, I got to see him.
Britain is meant to oppose red tape; here Britain wants a supplementary layer of red tape.
But there is still plenty of red tape.
"There was a lot of red tape," Mr. Townsend said.
But the burden of red tape has brought loud complaints.
Frequently aid gets lost in a jungle of red tape.
The European Union has also produced a thicket of red tape.
That means a lot of red tape for approvals.
It is also complex and full of red tape.
We don't have a lot of red tape.
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