red tape

Anlam (İngilizce)

  1. (uncountable) The binding tape once used for holding important documents together.
  2. (idiomatic, metonymically, uncountable) Time-consuming regulations or bureaucratic procedures.

Çeviriler

Bürokratismus

γραφειοκρατία

Schreibarbeit

Impôt_papier

Tâches administratives

impôt papier

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Etimoloji (İngilizce)

Alluding to the former practice of binding government documents in red-colored tape. First use appears c. 1658 in the publication Public Intelligencer. See cite below.

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