释义 |
red-ˈtapist Also -tapeist. [f. as prec. + -ist.] One who adheres strictly or mechanically to official routine.
1842R. Ford in Knapp Life Borrow (1899) II. App. i. 315 Red-tapists hatched in the hotbeds of jobbery. 1856Doran Knights & Days xxii. 374 There is a good deal of the red⁓tapist in our moralist after all. 1884Fortn. Rev. June 817 The official red-tapeists who seek to carry minutes, memoranda, and returns into every department of life. |