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Noun
redtape (uncountable)
- Archaic form of red tape.
- quoted in 2010, Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill, The Works of Thomas Carlyle (page 87)
- what blind obstructions, fatal indolences, pedantries, stupidities, on the right and on the left, he had to do battle with; what a world-wide jungle of redtape, inhabited by doleful creatures, deaf or nearly so to human reason or entreaty, he had entered on;
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