Definitions for red-tape

red-tape red tape

Red-Tape is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 4 points.

You can make 198 anagrams from letters in red-tape (-adeeprt).

Definitions for red-tape

noun

  1. excessive formality and routine required before official action can be taken.

Origin of red-tape

First recorded in 1730-40; after the red tape used to tie official documents

Examples for red-tape

Sadly, its most notable achievement is to add layers of red tape and busywork to our already bureaucracy-heavy prison system.

The abortion battleground is becoming a fight over reams of red tape.

But Rogers said the new policy is instead a new level of red tape that has paralyzed the U.S. military and intelligence community.

Oversight on top of oversight and red tape on top of red tape, Christie said, was the real enemy.

"It seems to me we're going through a lot of red tape," she said spitefully.

He tried it, and now he scratched the apparent size of the star into the red tape.

They think to shave my locks; show me to the people bound by their red tape.

A yellow hazardous material bin placed out on the lawn, just beyond some red tape reading “Danger Do Not Enter,” left no doubt.

We have already unraveled yards of red tape, and still there is no end.

I've been meaning to see you, so I volunteered to run out some red tape for your captain.

Word Value for red-tape
Scrable

4

Words with friends

4

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