It is only in England, where we are so careful for the individual and so careless of the type, that we have to pay for dying, and leave a mass of red-tape formalities for our friends.

Its organization will be simple and practical, avoiding red-tape, unnecessary formality, and elaborate rules and regulations.

rule, standing order, precedent, routine; red-tape, red-tapism^; pipe clay; rut, groove.

Besides being a man of red-tape and pigeon-holes, exact, methodical, and strictly attentive to business, he had a power over a Kentucky jury such as no other man has ever wielded.

Mr. Moyese being now released from the children, took his way to the office, with the portentous red-tape document that was to so greatly change the condition of George Winston in his coat pocket.

What did the blighted red-tape-worms take him for?

" For once the detective cursed in his heart the red-tape, roundabout ways of French officialism.

The people were honest and polite, and the red-tape requirements definite and reasonable.

Against stupid pedagogy, against red-tape, against the policy that morality must never interfere with business principles, against civic dirtiness, against brothel and saloon, women are more active than men, because they see more clearly how vitally the interests of their children are affected by these evil conditions.

The physical and mental strain is inevitably severe: in many cases this is unnecessarily increased by red-tape regulations that involve loss of time and temper and an amount of clerical work, which serves no useful purpose.

She will find that there are compensations for hard work and red-tape regulations, even for low remuneration and slowness of promotion.

RED-TAPE, name given to official formality, from the red-tape employed in tying official documents, whence "red-tapism.

RED-TAPE, name given to official formality, from the red-tape employed in tying official documents, whence "red-tapism.