bureaucratic procedure

1. 1.

   needlessly time-consuming procedure

   Synonymsred tape

   Broaderprocedure

Questions about bureaucratic procedure

What does bureaucratic procedure mean?

bureaucratic procedure means "needlessly time-consuming procedure".

What is another word for bureaucratic procedure?

Close synonyms include red tape. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bureaucratic procedure a common word?

bureaucratic procedure is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.