WordNet
bureaucratic procedure
n. needlessly time-consuming procedure [syn: red tape]
Usage examples of "bureaucratic procedure".
More than a year, during which bureaucratic procedure delayed my plans for a return to the Sphere.
The computer was also able to teach them the bureaucratic procedure that was probably the basis for the current government.
I do not, it seems, do things in the right order, at the right time, or use the correct bureaucratic procedure.
It seemed that Blair was right about the myriad of delays that the Spanish imposed on even the simplest bureaucratic procedure, but Sharpe did not have the patience to be the victim of such nonsense.
Security, as usual, had a few items above the dead level of bureaucratic procedure.