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Red Tape, official forms and procedures, especially when oppressively complex and time consuming, required by a government in its administration of services.

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bureaucratic inefficiency exemplified by red tape, see Bureaucracy

excessive paperwork associated with legal compliance, see Occupational Safety and Health Administration

efforts to reduce red tape, Theodore Roosevelt: The Rough Riders