- cut red tape
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To reduce bureaucracy.
This insurance company is an expert at cutting red tape to process your claim faster.
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red tape — ˌred ˈtape noun [uncountable] official rules that seem complicated and unnecessary and prevent things from being done quickly and easily: • The only way to get this project off the ground is to cut through the red tape. • Planning permission is… … Financial and business terms
red tape — {n. phr.} Unnecessary bureaucratic routine; needless but official delays. * /If you want to get anything accomplished in a hurry, you have to find someone in power who can cut through all that red tape./ … Dictionary of American idioms
red tape — {n. phr.} Unnecessary bureaucratic routine; needless but official delays. * /If you want to get anything accomplished in a hurry, you have to find someone in power who can cut through all that red tape./ … Dictionary of American idioms
red tape — n [U] official rules that seem unnecessary and prevent things from being done quickly and easily ▪ a procedure surrounded by bureaucracy and red tape ▪ The new rules should help cut the red tape for farmers … Dictionary of contemporary English
red tape — n. 1) to get caught up in, get involved in red tape 2) to cut, eliminate (the) red tape * * * [ˌred teɪp] eliminate (the) red tape get involved in red tape to cut to get caught up in … Combinatory dictionary
red tape — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ administrative, bureaucratic ▪ government, governmental (AmE) VERB + RED TAPE ▪ cut, reduce … Collocations dictionary
red tape — n. bureaucratic annoyances; bureaucratic forms and procedures. (Typically with cut as in the example.) □ If you deal with the government, you will have to put up with lots of red tape. □ I have a friend who knows how to cut through red tape … Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions
red\ tape — n. phr. Unnecessary bureaucratic routine; needless but official delays. If you want to get anything accomplished in a hurry, you have to find someone in power who can cut through all that red tape … Словарь американских идиом
Red Skelton — Red Skelton, 1960. Birth name Richard Bernard Skelton Born July 18, 1913(1913 07 18) … Wikipedia
cut — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 hole/opening made by cutting ADJECTIVE ▪ clean, neat ▪ little, small ▪ long ▪ straight … Collocations dictionary
